FREQUENCY DISTRIBUTION OF INTERRESPONSE TIMES DURING VI AND VR REINFORCEMENT1
- 1 September 1965
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Wiley in Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior
- Vol. 8 (5) , 347-352
- https://doi.org/10.1901/jeab.1965.8-347
Abstract
A detailed analysis was made of the interresponse times (IRTs) of two rats under both a VI 40-sec and a VR 15-sec schedule. Except for the latency of the first response after a reinforcement, the mean IRTs of all further responses differed little. Similarly, the frequency distributions of the successive IRTs did not vary greatly, but were of no simple form. Sequential dependencies between successive IRTs were small, never accounting for more than 1% of the variance.Keywords
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