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Optimal behavior in free-operant experiments.
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This article is published in Psychological Review.The article was published on 1969-03-01. It has received 218 citations till now.read more
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The "supersitition" experiment: A reexamination of its implications for the principles of adaptive behavior.
TL;DR: The proposed theoretical scheme represents a shift away from hypothetical "laws of learning" toward an interpretation of behavioral change in terms of interaction and competition among tendencies to action according to principles evolved in phylogeny.
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Time, rate, and conditioning.
Charles R. Gallistel,John Gibbon +1 more
TL;DR: The authors draw together and develop previous timing models for a broad range of conditioning phenomena to reveal their common conceptual foundations: first, conditioning depends on the learning of the temporal intervals between events and the reciprocals of these intervals, the rates of event occurrence.
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Maximization theory in behavioral psychology
TL;DR: Maximization theory as mentioned in this paper is an alternative to reinforcement theory as a description of steady-state behavior, and it provides new insight into these situations and, because it takes context into account, has greater predictive power than reinforcement theory.
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Relative and absolute strength of response as a function of frequency of reinforcement
TL;DR: The present experiment is a study of strength of response of pigeons on a concurrent schedule under which they peck at either of two response-keys and investigates output as a function of frequency of reinforcement.
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The theory of decision making.
TL;DR: This literature review of decision making (how people make choices among desirable alternatives), culled from the disciplines of psychology, economics, and mathematics, covers the theory of riskless choices, the application of the theory to welfare economics,The theory of risky choices, transitivity of choices, and the theories of games and statistical decision functions.
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Games and decisions; introduction and critical survey.
R. Duncan Luce,Howard Raiffa +1 more