Assessing potency of high- and low-preference reinforcers with respect to response rate and response patterns |
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Authors: | Penrod Becky Wallace Michele D Dyer Edwin J |
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Affiliation: | University of Nevada, Reno, Nevada, USA. |
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Abstract: | Previous research has suggested that the availability of high-preference stimuli may override the reinforcing efficacy of concurrently available low-preference stimuli under relatively low schedule requirements (e.g., fixed-ratio 1 schedule). It is unknown if similar effects would be obtained under higher schedule requirements. Thus, the current study compared high-preference and low-preference reinforcers under progressively increasing schedule requirements. Results for 3 of the 4 participants indicated that high-preference stimuli maintained responding under higher schedule requirements relative to low-preference stimuli. For 1 participant, high-preference and low-preference stimuli were demonstrated to be equally effective reinforcers under increasing schedule requirements. Implications with respect to rate of performance and response patterns are discussed. |
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Keywords: | positive reinforcement preference assessments progressive ratio response effort |
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