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THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN OBSERVING BEHAVIOR AND FOOD‐KEY RESPONSE RATES UNDER MIXED AND MULTIPLE SCHEDULES OF REINFORCEMENT 1
Author(s) -
Hirota Theodore T.
Publication year - 1974
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.1974.21-259
Subject(s) - reinforcement , schedule , food delivery , stimulus (psychology) , response time , psychology , audiology , extinction (optical mineralogy) , cognitive psychology , computer science , social psychology , medicine , biology , paleontology , computer graphics (images) , marketing , business , operating system
Pigeons were trained under an observing response procedure in which pecks on one key (food key) were reinforced under a mixed fixed‐interval 30‐sec extinction schedule. A response on a second (observing) key replaced the mixed‐schedule stimulus with either of two multiple‐schedule stimuli (red and green keylights) for 5 sec. Observing response rates were positively correlated with food‐key response rates in the presence of multiple‐schedule stimuli and inversely related to food‐key response rates in the presence of mixed‐schedule stimuli. These results suggest that observing response output is controlled not only by the stimuli produced by observing responses but also by the stimuli in the presence of which observing responses occur. The possibility that observing responses alter the probability of reinforcement is advanced.