THE EFFECT OF REINFORCEMENT MAGNITUDE UPON RESPONDING UNDER FIXED‐RATIO SCHEDULES1
- 1 July 1969
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Wiley in Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior
- Vol. 12 (4) , 605-608
- https://doi.org/10.1901/jeab.1969.12-605
Abstract
Responding under fixed-ratio schedules was studied as a function of two durations of food presentation. Latency of the first response after food presentation (post-reinforcement pause) was consistently shorter when food was presented for the longer duration. Only one of the four pigeons studied showed a consistently higher response rate, exclusive of post-reinforcement pause, as a function of the longer access to food. When ratio size was reduced, pause durations decreased, and the differences related to the two durations of food presentations became progressively smaller.Keywords
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