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Showing 1 to 13 of 13 for “"Matching law"”.
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The Matching Law and Schedule: Induced Drinking
… of a previous study and to determine if the matching law would apply to different categories of schedule-induced drinking. Procedure. Rats were taught to press a lever for food. Food was made available by a concurrent variable-interval variable-interval reinforcement schedule. One schedule …
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Further Examination of the Matching Law and Sports: A Description of Shot Selection in Professional Hockey
… sports have begun to consider the role of the matching law in describing choice behavior and sports. To date choice behavior in baseball, basketball, and football has been examined. Hockey presents a situation in which reinforcement occurs at a much lower rate than the sports already studied. …
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Dopamine and reward : effects of dopamine antagonist drugs on operant and consummatory behaviours
The Herrnstein matching law was used to dissociate motoric from motivational drug-induced performance changes. The effects of neuroleptic drugs were compatible with, at low doses, a reduction in reinforcer efficacy, and at higher doses, an additional motor impairment However, the Herrnstein …
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Changeover delay and concurrent schedules
… as measured by a in the generalised matching law was, for both response and time measures, less than unity and least at no COD. Generally it increased with the introduction of any COD but did not change systematically with COD length. Responding during the COD was found to be …
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Where does the time go? An investigation of self-reported time allocation
… theorists and research on the quantitative matching law. Recently, scholars have called for increased theoretical rigor in conceptualizing psychological health, as well as increased conceptual and methodological dialogue between basic and applied researchers. The present study examined the …
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Concurrent schedule performance of possums: a comparison of two models
… with other species. However, the degree of undermatching of the response ratios to the obtained reinforcement-rate ratios was greater than is normally observed with these schedules. Both the Generalised Matching Law and the Contingency-Discriminability model described the data well, although, …
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Choice in Human Breastfeeding Infants
… while breastfeeding and to what extent the matching law describes human breastfeeding behavior. A descriptive procedure was used in which breastfeeding mothers, with their infants, video recorded all nursing sessions within a 24 hour period. Dependent measures included (1) the amount of time …
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Multiple schedules: the effects of temporal factors on behaviour
… estimates of the parameters of the Generalised Matching Law for total responding and for responding in successive subintervals of components. Four hens served in the first experiment which examined the effects of reducing component duration while reinforcement rates in the component schedules …
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Mapping the substrate for brain stimulation reward : new approaches to an old problem
… I describe and test an extension of the matching law to relate behavioral performance to the intensity and rate of reinforcement. Analyzing performance in this three-dimensional space provides a means of distinguishing lesion-induced changes that are due to damage in the first-stage …
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Variables controlling the resurgence of previously reinforced behaviour in hens
… is correct. Models derived from the Generalised Matching Law and Behavioural Momentum are also proposed as descriptions of resurgence.
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Matching Equation: Teacher Rates of Praise and Reprimands
<p>Previous matching equation literature has demonstrated variability in student behaviors matching onto available reinforcement rates. While some studies have found that student on-task behaviors matched contingent teacher attention around half the observations (Martens et al., 1990), other …
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An Investigation into Establishing (Motivating) Operations
… a; this was more distinct when the Generalised Matching Law was applied to response rather than time locations for these hens. Frequency distributions of IRTs showed that for the hens that tended to show increasing sensitivity as bodyweights increased there were more IRTs in bins greater than …