ESCOLHA, REFORÇAMENTO CONDICIONADO E EFEITO PRIUS1 CHOICE, CONDITIONED REINFORCEMENT, AND THE PRIUS EFFECT

摘要: Psychologists have long been intrigued with the rationales underlying our decisions. Similarly, concept of conditioned reinforcement has a venerable history, particularly in accounting for behavior not obviously maintained by primary reinforcers. The studies choice and often developed lockstep. Many contemporary approaches to these fundamental topics share an emphasis on context relative value. We trace evolution thinking about potency onditioned reinforcers from stimuli that were thought acquire their value pairings more being differentially correlated discuss some seminal experiments (including several underappreciated) ongoing data all which propelled us conclusion strength is determined signaling improvement organism’s relation reinforcement. Key words: choice, reinforcement, delay-reduction theory, observing, matching law, chain schedules,