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SOME DETERMINANTS OF REMOTE BEHAVIORAL HISTORY EFFECTS IN HUMANS
Author(s) -
Hirai Mariko,
Okouchi Hiroto,
Matsumoto Akio,
Lattal Ken A.
Publication year - 2011
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.2011.96-387
Subject(s) - schedule , stimulus (psychology) , differential reinforcement , reinforcement , audiology , computer science , psychology , medicine , cognitive psychology , social psychology , operating system
Undergraduates were exposed to a series of reinforcement schedules: first, to a fixed‐ratio (FR) schedule in the presence of one stimulus and to a differential‐reinforcement‐of‐low‐rate (DRL) schedule in the presence of another (multiple FR DRL training), then to a fixed‐interval (FI) schedule in the presence of a third stimulus (FI baseline), next to the FI schedule under the stimuli previously correlated with the FR and DRL schedules (multiple FI FI testing), and, finally, to a single session of the multiple FR DRL schedule again (multiple FR DRL testing). Response rates during the multiple FI FI schedule were higher under the former FR stimulus than under the former DRL stimulus. This effect of remote histories was prolonged when either the number of FI‐baseline sessions was small or zero, or the time interval between the multiple FR DRL training and the multiple FI FI testing was short. Response rates under these two stimuli converged with continued exposure to the multiple FI FI schedule in most cases, but quickly differentiated when the schedule returned to the multiple FR DRL.