QUASI‐REINFORCEMENT: CONTROL OF RESPONDING BY A PERCENTAGE‐REINFORCEMENT SCHEDULE1
- 1 January 1967
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Wiley in Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior
- Vol. 10 (1) , 45-54
- https://doi.org/10.1901/jeab.1967.10-45
Abstract
When a variable-interval schedule of reinforcement was segmented into small fixed-interval components, with reinforcements following some components and brief blackouts following the others, rate of responding doubled and a positively accelerated pattern within each component was obtained. Presented according to this percentage reinforcement paradigm, the blackouts approximated the functions of a food reinforcer. These effects occurred only when the behavior sequence required to produce reinforcement was identical to that required to produce blackout. The quasi-reinforcing effects of these blackout stimuli suggest that a neutral stimulus need not occasion or accompany a primary reinforcer to acquire reinforcing properties.This publication has 8 references indexed in Scilit:
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