MATCHING AND MAXIMIZING WITH VARIABLE‐TIME SCHEDULES
- 1 January 1985
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Wiley in Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior
- Vol. 43 (1) , 75-81
- https://doi.org/10.1901/jeab.1985.43-75
Abstract
Pigeons were offered choices between a variable-time schedule that arranged reinforcers throughout the session and a variable-time schedule that arranged reinforcers only when the pigeon was spending time on it. The subjects could maximize the overall rate of reinforcement in this situation by biasing their time allocation towards the latter schedule. This arrangement provides an alternative to concurrent variable-interval variable-ratio schedules for testing whether animals maximize overall rates or match relative rates, and has the advantage of being free of the asymmetrical response requirements present with those schedules. The results were contrary to those predicted by maximizing: The bias it predicts did not appear.Keywords
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