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Mazur, James E. – Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior, 2012
Parallel experiments with rats and pigeons examined whether the size of a pre-trial ratio requirement would affect choices in a self-control situation. In different conditions, either 1 response or 40 responses were required before each trial. In the first half of each experiment, an adjusting-ratio schedule was used, in which subjects could…
Descriptors: Reinforcement, Animal Behavior, Research, Animals
Eppolito, Amy K.; France, Charles P.; Gerak, Lisa R. – Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior, 2011
Delay to delivery of a reinforcer can decrease responding for that reinforcer and increase responding for smaller reinforcers that are available concurrently and delivered without delay; acute administration of drugs can alter responding for large, delayed reinforcers, although the impact of chronic treatment on delay discounting is not well…
Descriptors: Animals, Delay of Gratification, Reinforcement, Responses
Galtress, Tiffany; Garcia, Ana; Kirkpatrick, Kimberly – Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior, 2012
Individual differences in impulsive choice behavior have been linked to a variety of behavioral problems including substance abuse, smoking, gambling, and poor financial decision-making. Given the potential importance of individual differences in impulsive choice as a predictor of behavioral problems, the present study sought to measure the extent…
Descriptors: Addictive Behavior, Substance Abuse, Individual Differences, Animal Behavior
Sokolowski, Michel B. C.; Disma, Gerald; Abramson, Charles I. – Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior, 2010
An operant conditioning situation for the blow fly ("Protophormia terrae novae") is described. Individual flies are trained to enter and reenter a hole as the operant response. Only a few sessions of contingent reinforcement are required to increase response rates. When the response is no longer followed by food, the rate of entering the hole…
Descriptors: Operant Conditioning, Responses, Behavioral Science Research, Animals
Staddon, J. E. R.; MacPhail, R. C.; Padilla, S. – Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior, 2010
Charles Sherrington identified the properties of the synapse by purely behavioral means--the study of reflexes--more than 100 years ago. They were subsequently confirmed neurophysiologically. Studying reflex interaction, he also showed that activating one reflex often facilitates another, antagonistic one: "successive induction," which has since…
Descriptors: Behavior Patterns, Behavioral Science Research, Responses, Animals
Thorne, David R. – Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior, 2010
Various theoretical equations have been proposed to predict response rate as a function of the rate of reinforcement. If both the rate and probability of reinforcement are considered, a simple identity, defining equation, or "law" holds. This identity places algebraic constraints on the allowable forms of our mathematical models and can help…
Descriptors: Behavioral Science Research, Economics, Responses, Reinforcement
Pietras, Cynthia J.; Brandt, Andrew E.; Searcy, Gabriel D. – Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior, 2010
An experiment with adult humans investigated the effects of response-contingent money loss (response-cost punishment) on monetary-reinforced responding. A yoked-control procedure was used to separate the effects on responding of the response-cost contingency from the effects of reduced reinforcement density. Eight adults pressed buttons for money…
Descriptors: Intervals, Behavior Modification, Punishment, Reinforcement
Lagorio, Carla H.; Hackenberg, Timothy D. – Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior, 2010
Pigeon and human subjects were given repeated choices between variable and adjusting delays to token reinforcement that titrated in relation to a subject's recent choice patterns. Indifference curves were generated under two different procedures: "immediate exchange," in which a token earned during each trial was exchanged immediately for access…
Descriptors: Reinforcement, Psychological Patterns, Animals, Behavioral Science Research
Davison, Michael; Elliffe, Douglas; Marr, M. Jackson – Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior, 2010
Four pigeons were trained on two-key concurrent variable-interval schedules with no changeover delay. In Phase 1, relative reinforcers on the two alternatives were varied over five conditions from 0.1 to 0.9. In Phases 2 and 3, we instituted a molar feedback function between relative choice in an interreinforcer interval and the probability of…
Descriptors: Behavioral Science Research, Animals, Animal Behavior, Reinforcement
Shahan, Timothy A. – Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior, 2010
Stimuli associated with primary reinforcers appear themselves to acquire the capacity to strengthen behavior. This paper reviews research on the strengthening effects of conditioned reinforcers within the context of contemporary quantitative choice theories and behavioral momentum theory. Based partially on the finding that variations in…
Descriptors: Stimuli, Reinforcement, Responses, Conditioning
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
Slotnick, Burton – Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior, 2009
Contact or touch detectors in which a subject acts as a switch between two metal surfaces have proven more popular and arguably more useful for recording responses than capacitance switches, photocell detectors, and force detectors. Components for touch detectors circuits are inexpensive and, except for some special purpose designs, can be easily…
Descriptors: Animals, Behavioral Science Research, Responses, Research Methodology
Okouchi, Hiroto – Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior, 2009
The present experiment examined whether a response class was acquired by humans with delayed reinforcement. Eight white circles were presented on a computer touch screen. If the undergraduates touched two of the eight circles in a specified sequence (i.e., touching first the upper-left circle then the bottom-left circle), then the touches…
Descriptors: Reinforcement, Behavioral Science Research, Visual Stimuli, Responses
DeWeese, Jo – Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior, 2009
Episodic and sustained increases in heart rate and mean arterial blood pressure can occur with recurring patterns of schedule-controlled behavior. Most previous studies were conducted under fixed-ratio schedules, which maintained a consistent high rate of responding that alternated with periods of no responding during times when the schedule was…
Descriptors: Metabolism, Intervals, Physiology, Responses
McMillan, D. E.; Wessinger, William D.; Li, Mi – Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior, 2009
Drugs with multiple actions can have complex discriminative-stimulus properties. An approach to studying such drugs is to train subjects to discriminate among drug combinations and individual drugs in the combination so that all of the complex discriminative stimuli are present during training. In the current experiments, a four-choice procedure…
Descriptors: Narcotics, Animals, Stimuli, Visual Stimuli