Conditioning Response Variability
- 1 October 1966
- journal article
- research article
- Published by SAGE Publications in Psychological Reports
- Vol. 19 (2) , 551-557
- https://doi.org/10.2466/pr0.1966.19.2.551
Abstract
Variability of performance was conditioned in three rats by making reinforcement contingent upon two successive inter-response times or post-reinforcement pauses falling into different temporal class intervals. Class intervals were systematically varied over a range of 1.0 to 20.0 sec. Inter-response time and post-reinforcement pause-time distributions, in terms of absolute frequency, were obtained at each interval value. All rats met the variability-of-performance requirement by regular alternation between short and long pauses.This publication has 6 references indexed in Scilit:
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