Journal article
RESPONDING CHANGES SYSTEMATICALLY WITHIN SESSIONS DURING CONDITIONING PROCEDURES
Journal of the experimental analysis of behavior, Vol.60(3), pp.621-640
11/1993
Handle:
https://hdl.handle.net/2376/116529
PMCID: PMC1322170
PMID: 8283153
Abstract
When the procedure is held constant within an experimental session, responding often changes systematically within that session. Many of these within‐session changes in responding cannot be dismissed as learning curves or by‐products of satiation. They have been observed in studies of positive reinforcement, avoidance, punishment, extinction, discrimination, delayed matching to sample, concept formation, maze and alley running, and laboratory analogues of foraging, as well as in the unconditioned substrates of conditioned behavior. When aversive stimuli are used, responding usually increases early in the session. When positive reinforcers are used, responding changes in a variety of ways, including increasing, decreasing, and bitonic functions. Both strong and minimal reinforcement procedures produce within‐session decreases in positively reinforced behavior. Within‐session changes in responding have substantial theoretical and methodological implications for research in conditioning.
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- Title
- RESPONDING CHANGES SYSTEMATICALLY WITHIN SESSIONS DURING CONDITIONING PROCEDURES
- Creators
- Frances K McSweeneyJohn M Roll
- Publication Details
- Journal of the experimental analysis of behavior, Vol.60(3), pp.621-640
- Academic Unit
- Elson S. Floyd College of Medicine; Psychology, Department of
- Publisher
- Blackwell Publishing Ltd; Oxford, UK
- Number of pages
- 20
- Identifiers
- 99900548145101842
- Language
- English
- Resource Type
- Journal article