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Don, Hilary J.; Worthy, Darrell A. – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 2022
Recent work in reinforcement learning has demonstrated a choice preference for an option that has a lower probability of reward (A) when paired with an alternative option that has a higher probability of reward (C), if A has been experienced more frequently than C (the frequency effect). This finding is critical as it is inconsistent with…
Descriptors: Reinforcement, Preferences, Rewards, Incidence
Neuringer, Allen; Jensen, Greg; Piff, Paul – Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior, 2007
Attempts to characterize voluntary behavior have been ongoing for thousands of years. We provide experimental evidence that judgments of volition are based upon distributions of responses in relation to obtained rewards. Participants watched as responses, said to be made by "actors," appeared on a computer screen. The participant's task was to…
Descriptors: Individual Power, Behavior, Responses, Rewards