Probability Relations within Response Sequences under Ratio Reinforcement.
01 Apr 1958-Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior (Society for the Experimental Analysis of Behavior)-Vol. 1, Iss: 2, pp 109-121
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TL;DR: In this article, the correlation of two variables, the number of reinforcements during preliminary training sessions and the number during lever-pressing training sessions, with a measure of response chain conditioning, was investigated.
Abstract: The correlation of two variables, the number of reinforcements during preliminary training sessions and the number of reinforcements during lever-pressing training sessions, with a measure of responsechain conditioning, was investigated. Six groups of male rats (35 Ss ) were trained in a lever-pressing apparatus, food serving as reinforcement. Two responses were recorded (a) a lever-pressing response; (b) a tray-contact response. Preliminary training sessions consisted in reinforcing tray-contact responses only; lever-pressing training consisted in presenting the reinforcer after a lever press was followed by a tray response. A subsequent extinction session showed that the functional relation between extinction score and frequency of reinforcement may be influenced by the amount of preliminary reinforcement given.
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TL;DR: O reaparecimento da sequencia alvo foi conceitualizado como ressurgencia, uma vez que sua frequencia foi menor that a das sequencias controle.
Abstract: O reaparecimento de uma resposta previamente extinta quando os reforcos para uma resposta alternativa sao descontinuados e denominado ressurgencia. Foram investigados os efeitos de tres variaveis sobre o reaparecimento de sequencias de respostas: probabilidade da sequencia (alta e baixa), contexto de teste (extincao e variacao operante) e numero de respostas por sequencia (tres e cinco). Sequencias muito provaveis reapareceram mais frequentemente que sequencias pouco provaveis, o reaparecimento da sequencia alvo foi mais frequente no contexto de extincao do que de variacao e o reaparecimento da sequencia alvo variou inversamente ao numero de respostas por sequencia. O reaparecimento da sequencia alvo, entretanto, nao foi conceitualizado como ressurgencia, uma vez que sua frequencia foi menor que a das sequencias controle. Palavras-chave : ressurgencia; probabilidade da sequencia; contexto de teste; numero de respostas por sequencia; humanos.
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TL;DR: I am indebted to Professor Lighthill for some further illuminating remarks regarding this point and his comments on Heisenberg's Theory of Isotropic Turbulence are highly illuminating.
Abstract: 1 G. K. Batchelor, The Theory of Homogeneous Turbulence (Cambridge: At the University Press, 1954). 2 G. K. Batchelor and A. A. Townsend, \"Decay of Turbulence in the Final Period of Decay,\" Proc. Roy. Soc. London, A, 194, 527-543, 1948. 3 W. Heisenberg, \"Zur statistischen Theorie der Turbulenz,\" Z. Physik, 124, 628-657, 1948. 4W. H. Reid, \"Two Remarks on Heisenberg's Theory of Isotropic Turbulence,\" Quart. Appl. Math. 14, 201-205, 1956. 6 Cf. M. J. Lighthill, Nature, 173, 746, 1954. I am indebted to Professor Lighthill for some further illuminating remarks regarding this point.
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