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AUDIT RESPONSES: RESPONSES MAINTAINED BY ACCESS TO EXISTING SELF OR COACTOR SCORES DURING NON‐SOCIAL, PARALLEL WORK, AND COOPERATION PROCEDURES 1
Author(s) -
Hake Don F.,
Vukelich Ron,
Kaplan Sheldon J.
Publication year - 1973
Publication title -
journal of the experimental analysis of behavior
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.75
H-Index - 61
eISSN - 1938-3711
pISSN - 0022-5002
DOI - 10.1901/jeab.1973.19-409
Subject(s) - audit , psychology , interpersonal communication , interpersonal relationship , work (physics) , sample (material) , facilitation , social psychology , applied psychology , accounting , business , engineering , mechanical engineering , chemistry , chromatography , neuroscience
Human subjects, mostly between 11 and 16 yr old, matched to sample for points that were exchangeable for money. An audit response was defined as a response maintained by allowing a subject access to an existing score on his own (self audit) or a coactor's (coactor audit) performance. In Experiment I, changes from non‐social procedures (no coactor) to social procedures (coactor present) increased self and coactor audits. Since both types of audits occurred at about the same rates during cooperation and parallel work procedures, the increases did not depend on the subjects' response interactions. Although Experiment I did not demonstrate that subjects were comparing scores, the frequent occurrence of each kind of audit within a brief time period (interpersonal audit) did indicate that it was reinforcing to have both scores at the same time. These interpersonal audits suggested that the coactor's score increased self audits during social procedures. Experiment II supported this notion: relative to a non‐social procedure, self audits increased more during a parallel work procedure when the coactor's score was accessible than when it was not accessible. Thus, increases in other behaviors that occur in the presence of a coactor, i.e. , social facilitation, may also result from or be increased by providing a coactor's score.