RANDOM INTERVAL SCHEDULES OF REINFORCEMENT1
- 1 July 1963
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Wiley in Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior
- Vol. 6 (3), 437-443
- https://doi.org/10.1901/jeab.1963.6-437
Abstract
A method for generating a reinforcement schedule that closely approximates idealized VI schedules in which reinforcement assignments occur randomly in time (RI schedules) is described. Response rates of pigeons exposed for 20 sessions to this schedule appeared very similar to response rates characteristic of arithmetic series VIs. The distribution function describing these schedules was derived and its relations to other VI distributions, as well as to FI and random ratio (RR) were shown.Keywords
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