Differentiation of Response Characteristics during Multiple Fixed Ratio Extinction
- 1 October 1964
- journal article
- research article
- Published by SAGE Publications in Psychological Reports
- Vol. 15 (2) , 495-502
- https://doi.org/10.2466/pr0.1964.15.2.495
Abstract
Multiple Fixed Ratio Extinction force and displacement data for lever pressing were obtained from a rhesus monkey restrained in a primate chair. Two basic behaviors were defined: responses, which were reinforced, and errors, which were not. When a Fixed Ratio 4 baseline was used and the reinforced force or displacement band was shifted, relative frequency force and displacement distributions shifted in the same direction. Under force-specific or displacement-specific reinforcement the number of errors preceding the first response of the fixed ratio was always larger than the number preceding any of the other responses. It appeared that S discriminated the response requirements, and that the procedure can be used to study such discrimination in detail.This publication has 6 references indexed in Scilit:
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