CONCURRENT PERFORMANCES: A BASELINE FOR THE STUDY OF REINFORCEMENT MAGNITUDE1
- 1 April 1963
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Wiley in Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior
- Vol. 6 (2) , 299-300
- https://doi.org/10.1901/jeab.1963.6-299
Abstract
When a pigeon's pecking on a single key was reinforced by a variable‐interval (VI) schedule of reinforcement, the rate of pecking was insensitive to changes in the duration of reinforcement from 3 to 6 sec. When, however, the pigeon's pecking on each of two keys was concurrently reinforced by two independent VI schedules, one for each key, the rate of pecking was directly proportional to the duration of reinforcement.Keywords
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