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RESPONSE‐REINFORCER RELATIONS AND THE MAINTENANCE OF BEHAVIOR
Author(s) -
Gleeson Suzanne,
Lattal Ken A.
Publication year - 1987
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.1987.48-383
Subject(s) - reinforcement , psychology , session (web analytics) , differential reinforcement , pecking order , audiology , developmental psychology , social psychology , computer science , medicine , evolutionary biology , world wide web , biology
The effects on pigeons' key pecking of unsignaled delays of reinforcement and response‐independent reinforcement were compared after either variable‐interval or differential‐reinforcement‐of‐low‐rate baseline schedules. One 30‐min session arranging delayed reinforcement and one 30‐min session arranging response‐independent reinforcement were conducted daily, 6 hr apart. A within‐subject yoked‐control procedure equated reinforcer frequency and distribution across the two sessions. Response rates usually were reduced more by response‐independent than by delayed but response‐contingent delivery of reinforcers. Under both schedules, response rates were lower when obtained delays were greater. These results bear upon methodological and conceptual issues regarding comparisons of contingencies that change the temporal response—reinforcer relations.