EFFECTS OF REINFORCEMENT MAGNITUDE ON PIGEONS' PREFERENCE FOR DIFFERENT FIXED‐RATIO SCHEDULES OF REINFORCEMENT1
- 1 March 1969
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Wiley in Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior
- Vol. 12 (2), 253-259
- https://doi.org/10.1901/jeab.1969.12-253
Abstract
In concurrent, two-member chains, the completion of one or the other of two initial percentage fixed-interval 90-sec links produced a terminal link in which the completion of a fixed ratio produced food reinforcement. The fixed ratios and the duration of reinforcement in the terminal links were varied. Relative response rate in initial links was proportional to the relative reinforcement duration per ratio response (reinforcement duration divided by fixed ratio) in terminal links. The rate of responding in the terminal fixed-ratio links was insensitive to both ratio size and reinforcement duration and therefore did not vary sufficiently to distinguish between responses per reinforcement and immediacy of reinforcement as controlling variables in terminal links.Keywords
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