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Showing 1 to 16 of 16 for “"Conditioned Reinforcement"”.
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CONDITIONED REINFORCEMENT FROM SHOCK TERMINATION.
… termination of shock would acquire a positive conditioned reinforcing function. Previous investigators have suggested that a stimulus paired with shock termination must increase the frequency of a response upon which it is made contingent. This test for conditioned reinforcement is incomplete …
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Acquisition of observing responses with delayed conditioned reinforcement
… response) on a tandem fixed-ratio 1 differential-reinforcement-of-other-behavior 10-s schedule. For the other 3 pigeons, no contingency was implemented for treadle pressing. Treadle pressing was established equally in the presence and absence of the observing contingency. The results did not …
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Quasimetric decision transformer: enhancing goal-conditioned reinforcement learning with structured distance guidance
Recent works have shown that tackling offline Reinforcement Learning (RL) with a conditional policy produces promising results. Decision Transformer (DT) have shown promising results in offline RL by leveraging sequence modeling. However, standard DTs rely on Returns-to-Go (RTG) tokens, which are …
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The Near Miss in Simulated Slot Machine Play: The Role of Conditioned Reinforcement
… of a near miss does, in fact, function as a conditioned reinforcer in slot machine gambling.
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The Effects of the Acquisition of Conditioned Reinforcement for Adult Faces and/or Voices on the Rate of Learning and Attention to the Presence of Adults . . .
… to test the effects of the acquisition of conditioned reinforcement for observing adult faces and conditioned reinforcement for listening to adult voices on rate of learning and attention to the presence of adults using a delayed multiple probe design across participants and behaviors. In …
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Effects of Click + Continuous Food Vs. Click + Intermittent Food on the Maintenance of Dog Behavior.
… food should be delivered every time the clicker (conditioned reinforcer) is used. However, presenting a conditioned reinforcer without food can weaken the strength of the conditioned reinforcer and also disrupt its discriminative stimulus function. A within subjects reversal design was used with 2 …
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The Effects of Delayed Positive Reinforcement on Learning in Dogs
… a particular focus on the timing of positive reinforcement delivery. The first two studies examined sources of dog training information. Dog owners and trainers rated their own personal experiences as being the most valuable source of dog training information, followed closely by free or …
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Effects of Mastery of Auditory Match-to-Sample Instruction on Echoics, Emergence of Advanced Listener Literacy, and Speaker as Own Listener Cusps by Elementary School Students with ASD and ADHD
… the probe procedure to identify the degree of conditioned reinforcement for voices. Full echoic responses across all participants significantly improved as a function of the advanced auditory MTS instruction. In Experiment 1, two out of four participants achieved full Naming. In Experiment 2, …
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Experimental Analysis of Operant Learning with Social Reinforcement in Mice
Social reinforcement/reward (SR) procedures in which operant responses are reinforced by the opportunity to interact in some way with other members of the same species (conspecifics) have been developed to study operant social learning in nonhuman animals, particularly with rats. Interest and …
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Investigating Factors Underlying the Ability of Reward-Paired Cues to Function as Conditioned Reinforcers
… due in part to their ability to function as conditioned reinforcers (CRfs). In this thesis, I investigated factors underlying the ability of reward-paired stimuli to function as CRfs using the acquisition-of-a-new-response task. In Chapter 2, I examined the effects of reducing the reward …
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Actions and Names: Observing Responses and the Role of Multiple Stimulus Control in Incidental Language Acquisition
… which provided rotated opportunities to receive reinforcement for responding to the stimuli with action imitation, listener responses, and speaker responses to the stimuli. Following mastery of the MEI intervention, participants acquired both speaker and listener responses to novel sets of …
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Human Suboptimal Choice: Identifying Alternative Procedures
… to choices that result in leaner schedules of reinforcement over richer schedules (Spetch et al., 1990). This has been demonstrated with non-human animals using procedures wherein two alternatives correspond to different stimuli and different probabilities of receiving rewards. In a previous …
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Mechanics of Stimulus & Response Generalization in Signal Detection & Psychophysics: Adaptation of Static Theory to Dynamic Performance.
… measures are determined by generalization of reinforcement along both stimulus and response dimensions. Historically the majority of research has addressed situations in which the difference among stimuli and resulting consequences of a perceptual decision are static. Consequently, little is …