CUNCURRENT SCHEDULES: INTERACTION OF REINFORCER FREQUENCY AND REINFORCER DURATION
- 1 May 1988
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Wiley in Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior
- Vol. 49 (3), 339-349
- https://doi.org/10.1901/jeab.1988.49-339
Abstract
Six pigeons were trained on concurrent variable-interval schedules with unequal reinforcer durations for the two responses. The schedules arranged on the two keys were kept equal while they were varied in absolute size. As the overall reinforcer rate was increased, both response-allocation and time-allocation measures of choice showed a trend toward indifference, and measures of sensitivity to reinforcer-duration ratios significantly decreased. Recent reports have shown that the generalized matching law cannot describe the changes in behavior allocation under constant delay-, duration-, or rate-ratios when changes are made in the absolute levels of each of these variables. The present results complement these findings by demonstrating that the concatenated generalized matching law cannot describe the interactions of two reinforcer variables on behavior allocation.Keywords
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