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SIGNALLED REINFORCEMENT IN MULTIPLE AND CONCURRENT SCHEDULES 1
Author(s) -
Wilkie Donald M.
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.1973.20-29
Subject(s) - reinforcement , computer science , psychology , social psychology
Five pigeons were exposed to multiple and concurrent variable‐interval, variable‐interval reinforcement schedules in which reinforcement availability in one component was never signalled. During certain phases of the experiment, reinforcement availability in the other component was signalled. Behavioral contrast was observed in seven of eight instances when reinforcement availability in the multiple schedules was signalled. Under the concurrent schedules in which reinforcement availability was signalled, the subjects did not always allocate more time to (prefer) the component containing non‐signalled reinforcement, as would be predicted by an account of behavioral contrast holding that contrast results from the introduction of a less‐preferred condition in one component of a multiple schedule.