Title :

Effects of reinforcement value on instruction following under schedules of negative reinforcement

Author(s) :

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

Journal title :

Behavioural Processes

Abbreviated title :

Behavioural Processes

Volume number :

145

Pages :

27-30

Publisher :

Elsevier BV

Publication date :

2017-12

ISSN :

0376-6357

HAL domain(s) :

Sciences cognitives

English abstract : [en]

The effects of reinforcement value and social control on instruction following under a negative-reinforcement (escape) schedule were studied. Initially, responding produced timeouts from pressing a force cell under a low ...
Show more >The effects of reinforcement value and social control on instruction following under a negative-reinforcement (escape) schedule were studied. Initially, responding produced timeouts from pressing a force cell under a low and a high force requirement on a fixed-ratio 1 schedule of reinforcement. Next, participants were reexposed to the low and high force requirements, but were instructed that the experimenter expected them to decrease the number of timeouts relative to the previous exposures to the procedure. Even though following the instruction led to a decrease in number of timeouts and to an increase in effort (i.e., was non-efficient), instruction following occurred consistently for each participant and was modulated by reinforcement value. That is, the decrease in the number of timeouts (i.e., instruction following) was lower under the high force requirement than under the low force requirement. These results replicate and extend previous findings that instructions interact with social and nonsocial contingencies in controlling human behavior.Show less >

Language :

Anglais

Audience :

Internationale

Administrative institution(s) :

Université de Lille
CNRS
CHU Lille

Collections :

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

Submission date :

2020-03-27T12:28:29Z
2020-03-31T07:50:55Z
2020-04-01T12:28:36Z