Theory of Learning with Constant, Variable, or Contingent Probabilities of Reinforcement
- 1 June 1957
- journal article
- Published by Cambridge University Press (CUP) in Psychometrika
- Vol. 22 (2) , 113-132
- https://doi.org/10.1007/bf02289048
Abstract
The methods used in recent probabilistic learning models to generate mean curves of learning under random reinforcement are extended to the general case in which probability of reinforcement may vary in any specified manner as a function of trials and to cases in which probability of reinforcement on a given trial is contingent upon responses or outcomes of preceding trials.Keywords
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