Determinants of Human Fixed-Interval Performance Following Varied Exposure to Reinforcement Schedules.

摘要: Undergraduates given accurate instructions pressed keys for token points under either a variety of reinforcement schedules (variety training) or single schedule. Response rates on fixed-interval (FI) test schedule then were assessed. Experiment 1 compared training inclusive Fl-optimal (functional) to excluding such (nonfunctional). Participants provided functional showed low relative those nonfunctional and single-instruction training, implicating response- rate history as determinant subsequent Fl performance. 2 manipulated the correspondence test-phase point densities with high-, low-, both high- low-rate components. Performances affected by density correspondence, suggesting discriminative control response density.