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Boutros, Nathalie; Davison, Michael; Elliffe, Douglas – Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior, 2011
Conditioned reinforcer effects may be due to the stimulus' discriminative rather than its strengthening properties. While this was demonstrated in a frequently-changing choice procedure, a single attempt to replicate in a relatively static choice environment failed. We contend that this was because the information provided by the stimuli was…
Descriptors: Conditioning, Stimuli, Reinforcement, Animals
Cowie, Sarah; Davison, Michael; Elliffe, Douglas – Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior, 2011
It has long been understood that food deliveries may act as signals of future food location, and not only as strengtheners of prefood responding as the law of effect suggests. Recent research has taken this idea further--the main effect of food deliveries, or other "reinforcers", may be signaling rather than strengthening. The present experiment…
Descriptors: Conditioning, Stimuli, Reinforcement, Animals
White, K. Geoffrey; Brown, Glenn S. – Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior, 2011
Pigeons performed a delayed matching-to-sample task in which large or small reinforcers for correct remembering were signaled during the retention interval. Accuracy was low when small reinforcers were signaled, and high when large reinforcers were signaled (the signaled magnitude effect). When the reinforcer-size cue was switched from small to…
Descriptors: Animals, Reinforcement, Accuracy, Memory
Green, Leonard; Myerson, Joel; Calvert, Amanda L. – Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior, 2010
Pigeons' discounting of probabilistic and delayed food reinforcers was studied using adjusting-amount procedures. In the probability discounting conditions, pigeons chose between an adjusting number of food pellets contingent on a single key peck and a larger, fixed number of pellets contingent on completion of a variable-ratio schedule. In the…
Descriptors: Reinforcement, Probability, Animal Behavior, Food
da Silva, Stephanie P.; Lattal, Kennon A. – Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior, 2010
The effects of reinforcer magnitude and response requirement on pigeons' say choices in an experimental homologue of human say-do correspondence were assessed in two experiments. The procedure was similar to a conditional discrimination procedure except the pigeons chose both a sample stimulus (the say component) and a comparison stimulus that…
Descriptors: Stimuli, Reinforcement, Animals, Animal Behavior
Davison, Michael; Baum, William M. – Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior, 2010
Four pigeons were trained in a procedure in which concurrent-schedule food ratios changed unpredictably across seven unsignaled components after 10 food deliveries. Additional green-key stimulus presentations also occurred on the two alternatives, sometimes in the same ratio as the component food ratio, and sometimes in the inverse ratio. In eight…
Descriptors: Stimuli, Auditory Perception, Animals, Responses
Milo, Jessie-Sue; Mace, F. Charles; Nevin, John A. – Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior, 2010
Previous research has demonstrated that factors such as reinforcer frequency, amount, and delay have similar effects on resistance to change and preference. In the present study, 4 boys with autism made choices between a constant reinforcer (one that was the same food item every trial) and a varied food reinforcer (one that varied randomly between…
Descriptors: Resistance to Change, Reinforcement, Males, Autism
Podlesnik, Christopher A.; Jimenez-Gomez, Corina; Ward, Ryan D.; Shahan, Timothy A. – Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior, 2009
Stimuli uncorrelated with reinforcement have been shown to enhance response rates and resistance to disruption; however, the effects of different rates of stimulus presentations have not been assessed. In two experiments, we assessed the effects of adding different rates of response-dependent brief stimuli uncorrelated with primary reinforcement…
Descriptors: Visual Stimuli, Intervals, Resistance to Change, Reinforcement
Mace, F. Charles; McComas, Jennifer J.; Mauro, Benjamin C.; Progar, Patrick R.; Taylor, Bridget; Ervin, Ruth; Zangrillo, Amanda N. – Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior, 2010
Basic research with pigeons on behavioral momentum suggests that differential reinforcement of alternative behavior (DRA) can increase the resistance of target behavior to change. This finding suggests that clinical applications of DRA may inadvertently increase the persistence of target behavior even as it decreases its frequency. We conducted…
Descriptors: Animals, Behavior Problems, Persistence, Reinforcement
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O'Daly, Matthew; Angulo, Samuel; Gipson, Cassandra; Fantino, Edmund – Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior, 2006
This set of studies explored the influence of temporal context across multiple-chain and multiple-successive-encounters procedures. Following training with different temporal contexts, the value of stimuli sharing similar reinforcement schedules was assessed by presenting these stimuli in concurrent probes. The results for the multiple-chain…
Descriptors: Stimuli, Reinforcement, Time Perspective, Conditioning
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Mazur, James E. – Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior, 2006
Pigeons responded on concurrent-chains schedules with equal variable-interval schedules as initial links. One terminal link delivered a single reinforcer after a fixed delay, and the other terminal link delivered either three or five reinforcers, each preceded by a fixed delay. Some conditions included a postreinforcer delay after the single…
Descriptors: Reinforcement, Animals, Animal Behavior, Behavioral Science Research
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Young, Michael E.; Beckmann, Joshua S.; Wasserman, Edward A. – Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior, 2006
We trained four pigeons to discriminate a Michotte launching animation from three other animations using a go/no-go task. The pigeons received food for pecking at one of the animations, but not for pecking at the others. The four animations featured two types of interactions among objects: causal (direct launching) and noncausal (delayed, distal,…
Descriptors: Interaction, Animal Behavior, Animals, Behavioral Science Research
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Okouchi, Hiroto; Lattal, Kennon A. – Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior, 2006
Four pigeons were exposed to two tandem variable-interval differential-reinforcement-of-low-rate schedules under different stimulus conditions. The values of the tandem schedules were adjusted so that reinforcement rates in one stimulus condition were higher than those in the other, even though response rates in the two conditions were nearly…
Descriptors: Stimuli, Reinforcement, Intervals, Animals
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Lieving, Gregory A.; Reilly, Mark P.; Lattal, Kennon A. – Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior, 2006
An observing procedure was used to investigate the effects of alterations in response-conditioned-reinforcer relations on observing. Pigeons responded to produce schedule-correlated stimuli paired with the availability of food or extinction. The contingency between observing responses and conditioned reinforcement was altered in three experiments.…
Descriptors: Behavior Modification, Stimuli, Reinforcement, Conditioning
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Grace, Randolph C.; Bragason, Orn – Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior, 2005
Our research addressed the question of whether sensitivity to relative reinforcer magnitude in concurrent chains depends on the distribution of reinforcer delays when the terminal-link schedules are equal. In Experiment 1, 12 pigeons responded in a two-component procedure. In both components, the initial links were concurrent variable-interval 40…
Descriptors: Reinforcement, Intervals, Animal Behavior, Animals
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