FIXED‐RATIO PERFORMANCE UNDER CONDITIONS OF DELAYED REINFORCEMENT1
- 1 January 1972
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Wiley in Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior
- Vol. 17 (1) , 95-98
- https://doi.org/10.1901/jeab.1972.17-95
Abstract
Four rats were trained on a schedule in which completion of a fixed number of lever presses initiated a signalled delay period, at the end of which food was delivered. Lever presses made during the delay had no scheduled consequences. Delays of 12, 3, and 0.75 sec were used, and it was found that the latency of the first response after food (the post-reinforcement pause) increased with length of delay. There was, on the other hand, no consistent effect of delay upon rates of responding after the post-reinforcement pause.Keywords
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