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TEMPORAL INHIBITION: EFFECTS OF CHANGES IN RATE OF REINFORCEMENT AND RATE OF RESPONDING 1
Author(s) -
Carr Edward G.,
Reynolds G. S.
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.1974.22-73
Subject(s) - reinforcement , schedule , interval (graph theory) , function (biology) , statistics , constant (computer programming) , psychology , mathematics , computer science , combinatorics , social psychology , biology , evolutionary biology , operating system , programming language
Pigeons were trained to key peck on several multiple schedules in which the first of two components was always a simple fixed‐interval schedule. The rate of responding at the beginning of the constant fixed‐interval schedule was found to decrease with increases in the rate of reinforcement associated with the other component of the multiple schedule, but remained unchanged with decreases in the rate of responding associated with the other component. These results were interpreted as being consistent with the view that the presence and magnitude of the temporal inhibitory effects observed in a given fixed‐interval schedule are a function of the properties of reinforcing stimuli, rather than of changes in the rate of responding associated with the time interval immediately preceding the fixed interval in question.