SPACED RESPONDING AND CHOICE: A PRELIMINARY ANALYSIS

dc.contributor.author	Staddon, John E.R.
dc.date.accessioned	2012-11-20T15:38:47Z
dc.date.available	2012-11-20T15:38:47Z
dc.date.issued	1968-11
dc.identifier.citation	Staddon, J. E. R. (1968). Spaced responding and choice: A preliminary analysis. Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior, 11, 669-682.	en_US
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/10161/5995
dc.description.abstract	Pigeons were exposed to reinforcement both for short (2 < IRT < 3 sec) and long (10 < IRT < 11 sec) interresponse times. They developed bimodal interresponse-time distributions, which were decomposable into two independent component distributions under the control of the short and long contingencies respectively. The birds' allocation of responses between these two distributions was determined by a simple power-law relationship between reinforcement ratios, and response ratios derived from the component distributions. Comparison between this situation and concurrent choice situations raises the possibility that the power-law relation between ratios may be a more general law of choice than the matching of relative frequencies (probabilities).	en_US
dc.description.sponsorship	Research supported by Grant MH 11525 from the National Institute of Mental Health, U.S.P.H.S., and grants from the National Research Council of Canada.	en_US
dc.publisher	SOCIETY FOR THE EXPERIMENTAL ANALYSIS OF BEHAVIOR	en_US
dc.subject	time discrimination,pigeons,matching law,power law	en_US
dc.title	SPACED RESPONDING AND CHOICE: A PRELIMINARY ANALYSIS	en_US
dc.type	Article	en_US
duke.description.endpage	669	en_US
duke.description.issue	669	en_US
duke.description.startpage	682	en_US
duke.description.volume	11	en_US
dc.relation.journal	JOURNAL OF THE EXPERIMENTAL ANALYSIS OF BEHAVIOR	en_US