ALTERING THE PROPORTION OF COMPONENTS IN A MIXED FIXED‐RATIO SCHEDULE1
- 1 September 1973
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Wiley in Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior
- Vol. 20 (2) , 273-279
- https://doi.org/10.1901/jeab.1973.20-273
Abstract
Pigeons were trained under a schedule consisting of a number of fixed‐ratio 100 components followed by a single fixed‐ratio 10 component. The proportion of fixed‐ratio 100 to fixed‐ratio 10 components was varied according to several ascending and descending series within the range of 99:1 to 1:1. When this proportion was reduced to about 20:1 and below, the pause following each fixed‐ratio 100 gradually decreased in length. Primes, a burst of responses at the start of the fixed‐ratio 100 component, increased in frequency, and then decreased when the proportion became extremely low. Also, when the relative frequency of fixed‐ratio 10 components was very high, primes were seldom observed in the first fixed‐ratio 100 component following a fixed‐ratio 10 component, but were distributed evenly throughout the remaining fixed‐ratio 100 components.Keywords
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