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REINFORCEMENT PROBABILITY AND ORDINAL POSITION OF RESPONSE IN FIXED‐INTERVAL SCHEDULES
Author(s) -
Rosenberg Jordan
Publication year - 1986
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.1986.45-103
Subject(s) - reinforcement , interval (graph theory) , statistics , function (biology) , computer science , mathematics , psychology , social psychology , combinatorics , evolutionary biology , biology
Four rats pressed levers and received food pellets under fixed‐interval reinforcement schedules of 20, 60, and 180 seconds. The number of responses in each interval was recorded. From these data, the probability of reinforcement was determined as a function of response count. These functions were generally increasing. This finding is consistent with previous suggestions that increasing response rates within fixed intervals may be a function of response count in addition to or instead of elapsed or remaining time.