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The Effect of Reinforcement Magnitude Upon Responding Under Fixed-ratio Schedules

Overview
Journal J Exp Anal Behav
Specialties Psychology
Social Sciences
Date 1969 Jul 1
PMID 16811382
Citations 34
Authors
R W Powell
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Abstract

Responding under fixed-ratio schedules was studied as a function of two durations of food presentation. Latency of the first response after food presentation (post-reinforcement pause) was consistently shorter when food was presented for the longer duration. Only one of the four pigeons studied showed a consistently higher response rate, exclusive of post-reinforcement pause, as a function of the longer access to food. When ratio size was reduced, pause durations decreased, and the differences related to the two durations of food presentations became progressively smaller.

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