A SYSTEM FOR PROGRAMMING EXPERIMENTS AND FOR RECORDING AND ANALYZING DATA AUTOMATICALLY1

Abstract

A system designed for use in complex operant conditioning experiments is described. Some of its key features are: (a) plugboards that permit the experimenter to change either from one program to another or from one analysis to another in less than a minute, (b) timesharing of permanently-wired, electronic logic components, (c) recordings suitable for automatic analyses. Included are flow diagrams of the system and sample logic diagrams for programming experiments and for analyzing data.