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NEGATIVE AUTOMAINTENANCE OMISSION TRAINING IS EFFECTIVE
Author(s) -
Sanabria Federico,
Sitomer Matthew T.,
Killeen Peter R.
Publication year - 2006
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.2006.36-05
Subject(s) - psychology , set (abstract data type) , operant conditioning , audiology , statistics , reinforcement , developmental psychology , cognitive psychology , social psychology , computer science , medicine , mathematics , programming language
Twelve pigeons were exposed to negative automaintenance contingencies for 17–27 sessions immediately after brief (14–16 sessions) or extended (168–237 sessions) exposure to positive automaintenance contingencies, or after 4–10 sessions of instrumental training. In all conditions, negative automaintenance contingencies virtually eliminated responding, reducing response rates to an average 1.3 responses per min. This reduction in response rate was validated by a model of transition between early and late response rates that assumed exponential transition of rates from one set of contingencies to the next. The model faithfully reproduced cumulative records, and yielded estimates of terminal rates under negative automaintenance that were close to operant level.