Titre :

Human choice under schedules of negative reinforcement

Auteur(s) :

Alessandri, Jerome [Auteur]
Laboratoire Sciences Cognitives et Sciences Affectives - UMR 9193 [SCALab]
Cançado, Carlos R.X. [Auteur]
Universidade de Brasilia [Brasília] [UnB]

Titre de la revue :

Behavioural Processes

Nom court de la revue :

Behavioural Processes

Numéro :

121

Pagination :

70-73

Éditeur :

Elsevier BV

Date de publication :

2015-12

ISSN :

0376-6357

Mot(s)-clé(s) en anglais :

Choice
Negative reinforcement
Timeout from force requirement
Concurrent-chains schedule
Button pressing
Humans

Discipline(s) HAL :

Sciences cognitives

Résumé en anglais : [en]

The generalized matching equation provides a good description of response allocation in concurrent schedules of positive reinforcement in nonhumans as well as in humans. The present experiment was conducted to further ...
Lire la suite >The generalized matching equation provides a good description of response allocation in concurrent schedules of positive reinforcement in nonhumans as well as in humans. The present experiment was conducted to further investigate the allocation of responding under concurrent schedules of negative reinforcement (i.e., timeouts from pressing a force cell) in humans. Each of three participants was exposed to different reinforcement ratios (9:1, 1:1 and 1:9) in the terminal links of a concurrent-chains schedule of negative reinforcement. The allocation of responding under this schedule was well described by the generalized matching equation, for each participant. These results replicate previous findings obtained with nonhumans and humans under concurrent schedules of positive reinforcement. In addition, they extend the results reported by Alessandri and Rivière (2013) showing that human behavior maintained by timeouts from an effortful response is sensitive to changes in relative reinforcement ratios as well as relative delays of reinforcement.Lire moins >

Langue :

Anglais

Audience :

Non spécifiée

Établissement(s) :

Université de Lille
CNRS
CHU Lille

Collections :

• Sciences Cognitives et Sciences Affectives (SCALab) - UMR 9193

Équipe(s) de recherche :

Équipe Action, Vision et Apprentissage (AVA)

Date de dépôt :

2020-03-27T12:38:39Z
2020-03-31T07:56:41Z
2020-04-01T13:02:44Z