CONCURRENT PERFORMANCES: REINFORCEMENT INTERACTION AND RESPONSE INDEPENDENCE1

AC Catania - Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior, 1963 - Wiley Online Library
When a pigeon's pecks on two keys were reinforced concurrently by two independent
variable‐interval (VI) schedules, one for each key, the response rate on either key was given …

CONCURRENT PERFORMANCES: A BASELINE FOR THE STUDY OF REINFORCEMENT MAGNITUDE1

AC Catania - Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior, 1963 - Wiley Online Library
When a pigeon's pecking on a single key was reinforced by a variable‐interval (VI) schedule
of reinforcement, the rate of pecking was insensitive to changes in the duration of …

CONCURRENT PERFORMANCES: INHIBITION OF ONE RESPONSE BY REINFORCEMENT OF ANOTHER1

AC Catania - Journal of the Experimental analysis of Behavior, 1969 - Wiley Online Library
In an analysis of interactions between concurrent performances, variable‐interval
reinforcement was scheduled, in various sequences, for both keys, for only one key, or for …

REINFORCEMENT SCHEDULES: THE ROLE OF RESPONSES PRECEDING THE ONE THAT PRODUCES THE REINFORCER1

AC Catania - Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior, 1971 - Wiley Online Library
In a two‐key pigeon chamber, variable‐interval reinforcement was scheduled for a specified
number of pecks, emitted either on a single key or in a particular sequence on the two keys …

YOKED VARIABLE‐RATIO AND VARIABLE‐INTERVAL RESPONDING IN PIGEONS1

AC Catania, TJ Matthews, PJ Silverman… - Journal of the …, 1977 - Wiley Online Library
Pigeons' key pecks were maintained by variable‐ratio or variable‐interval schedules of food
reinforcement. For pairs of pigeons in one group, variable‐ratio reinforcement was arranged …

MULTIPLE SCHEDULES: EFFECTS OF THE DISTRIBUTION OF REINFORCEMENTS BETWEEN COMPONENTS ON THE DISTRIBUTION OF RESPONSES …

DG Lander, RJ Irwin - Journal of the Experimental Analysis of …, 1968 - Wiley Online Library
Two pigeons were trained to peck a key under several multiple variable‐interval variable‐
interval schedules of reinforcement; different numbers of reinforcements were scheduled in …

The effects of different component response requirements in multiple and concurrent schedules

M Davison, A Ferguson - Journal of the Experimental Analysis …, 1978 - Wiley Online Library
Six pigeons were trained on multiple and concurrent schedules. The reinforcement rates
were varied systematically (a) when lever pressing was required in one component and key …

REINFORCER EFFECTIVENESS AS A FUNCTION OF REINFORCER RATE AND MAGNITUDE: A COMPARISON OF CONCURRENT PERFORMANCES1

JW Schneider - Journal of the Experimental Analysis of …, 1973 - Wiley Online Library
Pigeons' pecks on each of two concurrently available response keys were reinforced under
a variable‐interval schedule that sometimes allotted food‐pellet deliveries to one key and …

RESPONSE RATE AS A FUNCTION OF AMOUNT OF REINFORCEMENT FOR A SIGNALLED CONCURRENT RESPONSE1

H Rachlin, WM Baum - Journal of the Experimental Analysis of …, 1969 - Wiley Online Library
Pigeons were exposed to two equal, concurrent variable‐interval schedules of
reinforcement on two response keys. One key was continuously illuminated. Pecking on that …

Dependency, temporal contiguity, and response‐independent reinforcement

OJ Sizemore, KA Lattal - Journal of the Experimental Analysis …, 1977 - Wiley Online Library
A comparison was made of the effects of variable‐interval, variable‐time, and tandem
variable‐interval fixed‐time schedules on key‐peck responding of pigeons. The variable …