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Bruzek, Jennifer L.; Thompson, Rachel H.; Peters, Lindsay C. – Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior, 2009
Two experiments were conducted to identify the conditions likely to produce resurgence among adult human participants. The preparation was a simulated caregiving context, wherein a recorded infant cry sounded and was terminated contingent upon targeted caregiving responses. Results of Experiment 1 demonstrated resurgence with human participants in…
Descriptors: Infants, Negative Reinforcement, Undergraduate Students, Crying
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Jozefowiez, J.; Staddon, J. E. R.; Cerutti, D. T. – Psychological Review, 2009
The authors propose a simple behavioral economic model (BEM) describing how reinforcement and interval timing interact. The model assumes a Weber-law-compliant logarithmic representation of time. Associated with each represented time value are the payoffs that have been obtained for each possible response. At a given real time, the response with…
Descriptors: Intervals, Metacognition, Reinforcement, Time