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FREQUENCY VERSUS MAGNITUDE OF REINFORCEMENT: NEW DATA WITH A DIFFERENT PROCEDURE
Author(s) -
Todorov João Claudio,
Hanna Elenice Seixas,
Sá Maria Cristieves Bittencourt de
Publication year - 1984
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.1984.41-157
Subject(s) - reinforcement , duration (music) , session (web analytics) , audiology , statistics , psychology , computer science , mathematics , social psychology , medicine , acoustics , physics , world wide web
Two pigeons, with previous exposure to concurrent schedules, were submitted to 29 sessions of 8 hours each with concurrent variable‐interval variable‐interval schedules in which reinforcement parameters changed from session to session. In the first nine sessions reinforcement durations were equal in both schedules while reinforcement frequencies varied; in Sessions 10 through 18, both frequency and duration of reinforcement were varied; in Sessions 19 through 29, only reinforcement duration was varied. Results with this different procedure confirm previous findings that behavior is more sensitive to changes in reinforcement frequency than to reinforcement magnitude.