Mathematical Principles of Reinforcement: Based on the Correlation of Behaviour with Incentives in Short-Term Memory

摘要: Effective conditioning requires a correlation between the experimenter's definition of response and an organism's, but animal's perception its behavior differs from ours. Various definitions are explored experimentally using slopes learning curves to infer which comes closest organism's definition. The resulting exponentially weighted moving average provides model memory grounds quantitative theory reinforcement in incentives excite focus excitement on responses present at same time. measured by experimenter is given coupling coefficients derived for various schedules reinforcement. For simple these can be concatenated predict effects complex inserted into generic arousal temporal constraint rates under any scheduling arrangement. According theory, decay response-indexed rather than time-indexed. Incentives displace that occur before them may truncate representation brings about. This contiguity-weighted bridges opposing views process extended straightforward way classical stimuli. Placing short-term so central role behavioral account key cognitive process.