Frequency Versus Magnitude of Reinforcement: New Data with a Different Procedure

Overview

Journal J Exp Anal Behav

Specialties Psychology
Social Sciences

Date 1984 Mar 1

PMID 16812364

Citations 14

Authors

J C Todorov

E S Hanna

M C Bittencourt De Sa

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Abstract

Two pigeons, with previous exposure to concurrent schedules, were submitted to 29 sessions of 8 hours each with concurrent variable-interval variable-interval schedules in which reinforcement parameters changed from session to session. In the first nine sessions reinforcement durations were equal in both schedules while reinforcement frequencies varied; in Sessions 10 through 18, both frequency and duration of reinforcement were varied; in Sessions 19 through 29, only reinforcement duration was varied. Results with this different procedure confirm previous findings that behavior is more sensitive to changes in reinforcement frequency than to reinforcement magnitude.

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