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CHOICE, RELATIVE REINFORCER DURATION, AND THE CHANGEOVER RATIO
Author(s) -
Dunn Roger M.
Publication year - 1982
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.1982.38-313
Subject(s) - changeover , reinforcement , duration (music) , schedule , statistics , preference , frequency , psychology , computer science , social psychology , mathematics , telecommunications , art , literature , transmission (telecommunications) , operating system
Relative reinforcer duration was varied in concurrent schedules with a fixed‐ratio four changeover requirement. The schedule in effect after each reinforcer was randomly chosen. For all three pigeons, relative response rates overmatched relative reinforcer durations. Time allocation was less extreme and, on the average, matched relative reinforcer duration. In a subsequent manipulation, the level of preference was shown to depend on the size of the changeover requirement. These results are similar to those from related unequal reinforcement‐frequency procedures.