Pigeons' performance under differential reinforcement of low rate schedules depends upon the operant |
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Authors: | Nancy S Hemmes |
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Institution: | Queens College of The City University of New York USA |
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Abstract: | Pigeons were reinforced with grain for pecking a key or depressing a foot treadle according to differential reinforcement of low rate (DRL) schedules. Birds which depressed a treadle performed efficiently on DRL schedules as high as DRL 35-sec; while birds reinforced for keypecking showed low efficiency under DRL 14-sec. While treadle pressing and keypecking differ along a number of dimensions (including force requirement of the operant and differences in temporal distributions of responses), the present results are consistent with an interpretation based on differences in the degree to which these two responses are elicited by periodic presentations of food. |
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Keywords: | Requests for reprints should be sent to the author at Department of Psychology Queens College Flushing NY 11367 |
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