Some functional relationships of reaction potential (SER) and related phenomena.
- 1 January 1947
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Psychological Association (APA) in Journal of Experimental Psychology
- Vol. 37 (6), 510-526
- https://doi.org/10.1037/h0054470
Abstract
59 [male] albino rats were trained on a simple problem with a food reinforcement one trial per day (Jour. Exptl. Psychol. 37: 214-228 1947). The latencies of these responses were made the basis for a paired-comparison quantification of reaction potentiality (sEr) at 25 points during the learning process by an adaptation of Thurstone''s Case III (Psychol. Rev. 54: 237-254. 1947). Largely by curve-fitting procedures, these data yielded what purport to be several empirical molar behavioral laws. One of these is reaction potential as a function of the number of reinforcements (N), sEr = 3.55 (1 - 100.0305N). Reaction potential as a function of reaction latency (str) is, sEr = 2.845 stR-0.483[long dash]0.599. Reaction latency as a function of the number of reinforcements is, stR = 74.05 -N-1.6 + 0.43. In a somewhat similar manner the value of the absolute zero of reaction potential (Z) and the value of the reaction threshold (sLr) were obtained. The unit in all cases is the standard deviation of the oscillation function (sor) .Keywords
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