Effects of increasing and decreasing reward magnitude and pre-experimental persistence level on focal and incidental responses

摘要: Abstract Children rated as high persisters (HP) or low (LP) received increasing, decreasing, random schedules of reward. Effects reward, persistence, and sex factors on a focal lever moving response an incidental latency over rewarded nonrewarded trials were investigated. Lever activity LP girls directly reflected the reward magnitudes while HP whowed to similar findings in earlier work. Notably boys was attributed their problem solving reaction task situation. The responses yielded different information about treatments under certain conditions. For boys, particular, decrement speeds decreasing rewards concurrent either increased remained stable. Similarities differences between this previous work considered. Problems comparing results experiment one that used analogous incentive with animal S s also discussed.