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Direct linkGreen, 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
