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VIOLATIONS OF STOCHASTIC TRANSITIVITY ON CONCURRENT CHAINS: IMPLICATIONS FOR THEORIES OF CHOICE
Author(s) -
Houston Alasdair
Publication year - 1991
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.1991.55-323
Subject(s) - transitive relation , simple (philosophy) , computer science , reinforcement , measure (data warehouse) , scale (ratio) , mathematics , psychology , social psychology , data mining , combinatorics , epistemology , philosophy , physics , quantum mechanics
The concurrent‐chains procedure has been used to measure how choice depends on various aspects of reinforcement, such as its delay and its magnitude. Navarick and Fantino (1972, 1974, 1975) have found that choice in this procedure can violate the condition of stochastic transitivity that is required if a unidimensional scale for reinforcements is to be possible. It is shown in this paper that two simple unidimensional models of choice on concurrent chains can produce violations of stochastic transitivity. It is argued that such violations may result from the complex contingencies of the concurrent‐chains procedure.