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MATCHING WITH A TRIO OF CONCURRENT VARIABLE‐INTERVAL SCHEDULES OF REINFORCEMENT
Author(s) -
Pliskoff Stanley S.,
Brown Thomas G.
Publication year - 1976
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.1976.25-69
Subject(s) - changeover , reinforcement , interval (graph theory) , extinction (optical mineralogy) , matching law , matching (statistics) , computer science , variable (mathematics) , statistics , mathematics , psychology , social psychology , telecommunications , biology , combinatorics , paleontology , mathematical analysis , transmission (telecommunications)
A trio of concurrent variable‐interval schedules of reinforcement was arranged according to a changeover‐key procedure, including a changeover delay of 1.5 sec. The three schedules provided a combined maximum reinforcement rate of 45 reinforcements per hour. With that restriction, the nine experimental conditions included several combinations of variable‐interval schedules, sometimes including extinction. The pigeons matched relative response rate and relative time to relative reinforcement rate. Relative time appeared to match somewhat better than relative response rate. Performance adjusted rapidly from one experimental condition to the next, whether the change involved two or all three schedules of the concurrent trio.