Cerutti, D.T. and Staddon, J.E.R. (2004) Time and rate measures in choice transitions. Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior, 81 (2). pp. 135-154. ISSN 0022-5002
Abstract
Three experiments with pigeons studied the relation between time and rate measures of behavior under conditions of changing preference. Experiment 1 studied a concurrent chain schedule with random-interval initial links and fixed-interval terminal links; Experiment 2 studied a multiple chained random-interval fixed-interval schedule; and Experiment 3 studied simple concurrent random-interval random-interval schedules. In Experiment 1, and to a lesser extent in the other two experiments, session-average initial-link wait-time differences were linearly related to session-average response-rate differences. In Experiment 1, and to a lesser extent in Experiment 3, ratios of session-average initial-link wait times and response rates were related by a power function. The weaker relations between wait and response measures in Experiment 2 appear to be due to the absence of competition between responses. In Experiments 1 and 2, initial-link changes lagged behind terminal-link changes. These findings may have implications for the relations between fixed- and variable-interval procedures and suggest that more attention should be paid to temporal measures in studies of free-operant choice.
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Item Type: | Article |
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Institution: | The University of York |
Academic Units: | The University of York > Faculty of Sciences (York) > Psychology (York) |
Depositing User: | York RAE Import |
Date Deposited: | 03 Apr 2009 10:57 |
Last Modified: | 03 Apr 2009 10:57 |
Published Version: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1901/jeab.2004.81-135 |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | Society for the Experimental Analysis of Behavior |
Identification Number: | 10.1901/jeab.2004.81-135 |
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:6904 |