Optimization Theory Fails to Predict Performance of Pigeons in a Two-Response Situation
- 13 November 1981
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in Science
- Vol. 214 (4522), 823-825
- https://doi.org/10.1126/science.7292017
Abstract
Optimization theory states that organisms behave in a way that maximizes reinforcement or "value." In a two-response situation, pigeons' response proportions approximately equaled reinforcement proportions, even when this behavior pattern substantially decreased the rate of reinforcement. Optimization or reinforcement maximization was not supported as the basic mechanism underlying choice behavior.This publication has 12 references indexed in Scilit:
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