Effects of unsignaled delays of reinforcement on fixed-interval schedule performance

Behavioural Processes

Volumn 88, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 47-52

  Elcoro, Mirari ^a   Lattal, Kennon A ^a  

^a Armstrong Atlantic State University   (United States)

Author keywords

Delay of reinforcement; Fixed interval schedule; Nonresetting delays; Pigeons; Resetting delays; Temporal control; Unsignaled delays

Indexed keywords

BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY; BEHAVIORAL RESPONSE; BIRD; SOCIAL ORGANIZATION;

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; LINEAR SYSTEM; NONHUMAN; REINFORCEMENT; TIME PERCEPTION; UNSIGNALED DELAY OF REINFORCEMENT;

ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; COLUMBIDAE; CONDITIONING, OPERANT; MALE; REACTION TIME; REINFORCEMENT SCHEDULE;

COLUMBA;

EID: 80051593082     PISSN: 03766357     EISSN: 18728308     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.beproc.2011.07.001     Document Type: Article

References (17)

1. Arbuckle J.L., Lattal K.A. Changes in functional response units with briefly-delayed reinforcement. J. Exp. Anal. Behav. 1988, 49:249-263.
2. Azrin N.H., Holz W.C. Punishment during fixed-interval reinforcement. J. Exp. Anal. Behav. 1961, 4:343-347.
3. Catania C. Reinforcement schedules and psychophysical judgments. The Theory of Reinforcement Schedules 1970, 15-60. Appleton-Century-Crofts, NY. W.N. Schoenfeld (Ed.).
4. Δ periods on responding on a fixed-interval schedule. J. Exp. Anal. Behav. 1962, 5:369-374.
5. Dews P.B. Studies on responding under fixed-interval schedules of reinforcement: the effects on the pattern of responding of changes in requirements at reinforcement. J. Exp. Anal. Behav. 1969, 12:191-199.
6. Dews P.B. Effects of delay of reinforcement on the rate of steady-state responding. Quantification of Steady-State Operant Behaviour 1980, 215-229. Elsevier, Amsterdam. C.M. Bradshaw, E. Szabadi, C.F. Lowe (Eds.).
7. Ferster C.B., Skinner B.F. Schedules of Reinforcement 1957, Appleton-Century-Crofts, NY.
8. Gollub L.R. The relation among measures of performance on fixed-interval schedules. J. Exp. Anal. Behav. 1964, 7:337-343.
9. Grace R., Nevin J.A. Response strength and temporal control in fixed-interval schedules. Anim. Learn. Behav. 2000, 28:313-331.
10. Herrnstein R.J., Morse W.H. Effects of pentobarbital on intermittently reinforced behavior. Science 1957, 125:929-931.
11. Lattal K.A. Considerations in the experimental analysis of reinforcement delay. Quantitative Studies of Operant Behavior: The Effect of Delay and of Intervening Events on Reinforcement Value 1987, 107-123. Erlbaum, NY. M.L. Commons, J. Mazur, J.A. Nevin, H. Rachlin (Eds.).
12. Lattal K.A. Delayed reinforcement of operant behavior. J. Exp. Anal. Behav. 2010, 93:129-139.
13. Lattal K.A., Ziegler D.R. Briefly delayed reinforcement: an interresponse time analysis. J. Exp. Anal. Behav. 1982, 37:407-416.
14. Morgan M.J. Fixed-ratio performance under conditions of delayed reinforcement. J. Exp. Anal. Behav. 1972, 17:95-98.
15. Richards R.W. A comparison of signaled and unsignaled delay of reinforcement. J. Exp. Anal. Behav. 1981, 35:145-152.
16. Sizemore O.J., Lattal K.A. Unsignaled delay of reinforcement in variable-interval schedules. J. Exp. Anal. Behav. 1978, 30:160-175.
17. Skinner B.F. The behavior of organisms 1938, Appleton-Century-Crofts, NY.