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Showing 1 to 12 of 12 for “"Reinforcement schedules"”.
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Variable Reinforcement Schedules on a Teacher-Constructed Test
… of this study was to investigate timing of reinforcement and its relationship to performance on a teacher-constructed test. More specifically, it was concerned with the extent that reinforcement timing influenced learning of seventh grade general science material in physical geology.
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The relative contributions of preference and functionality in noncontingent reinforcement schedules
<p>Noncontingent reinforcement (NCR), the response-independent delivery of reinforcers, has been demonstrated to be an effective response suppression method for a variety of problem behaviors displayed by children. The purpose of the current study was to determine whether preference for specific …
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COMPUTERIZED BEHAVIORAL SKILLS TRAINING, SELECTION-BASED INSTRUCTION, LAG REINFORCEMENT SCHEDULES, AND THE EMERGENCE OF TOPOGRAPHY-BASED RESPONSES TO INTERVIEW QUESTIONS
… protocol operating on a lag schedule of reinforcement is an effective and efficient method for teaching responses to interview questions (O’Neill, Blowers, Henson, & Rehfeldt, 2015; O’Neill & Rehfeldt, 2014). The purpose was to address some of the limitations of these studies while …
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A Study in Application of Positive Reinforcement for Improving Listening Achievement
… the effectiveness of utilizing positive reinforcement techniques to improve listening awareness during the process of receiving verbal instructions; (2) evaluate the use of reinforcement schedules with and without positive reinforcement; (3) determine to what extent a formal program …
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Concurrent Schedule Performance with Young Infants
… terminate experimental sessions. Concurrent reinforcement schedules provide a methodology for demonstrating schedule control over the response without relying on extinction sessions. The purpose of this study is to determine whether infant responding can be acquired, maintained, and …
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Partial reinforcement effects in Pavlovian (CER) conditioning: between and within subjects
… the effects of partial and continuous reinforcement of the CER. A 2 x 2 mixed design provided for the factorial combination of 100% and 50% reinforcement schedules with two discrete conditioned stimuli. Analysis of bar press suppression revealed a significant within-subjects reversed …
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Response patterning in goldfish: single alternation in a Pavlovian aversive paradigm
… reinstate alternation performance by increasing reinforcement magnitude and by giving extended training, but with little success. Although it was determined that neither a sensory aftereffects trace hypothesis nor a memorial representation hypothesis could exclusively account for the present …
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Conjugate Reinforcement: The Effects of Stimulus Clarity
Schedules receiving little attention in the scientific literature are schedules of covariation, specifically conjugate reinforcement. While less studied, conjugate reinforcement schedules have been used predominately in basic studies examining a variety of phenomena. Recent research (MacAleese et …
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Therapy development of group contingency management in methadone treatment: Pilot 1 - the application of a percentile schedule to enhance attendance behaviors and cocaine abstinence
… to adapt a prize-based attendance and abstinence reinforcement program to the group therapy modality typically found in community substance abuse treatment, this study applied a contingency management (CM) procedure to behavior outcomes of the group as a whole. An algorithmic shaping percentile …
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Patterning of Behavior in a Concurrent Variable-Interval Schedule as a Function of the Changeover Delay
… placement of licking in a concurrent schedule of reinforcement and to see how various changeover delays affect the temporal placement of licking. Procedure. Rats were trained to press a lever for food. Food was made available by two independent reinforcement schedules, separated by a changeover …
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The Effects of Dopamine D3 Receptor Compounds on Oxycodone Self-Administration and Reinstatement in Female Cynomolgus Monkeys
… under a fixed-ratio (FR) schedule of reinforcement in female cynomolgus monkeys and examine the effects of (±)VK4-40 and (±)VK4-116 versus the mu-opioid receptor antagonist naltrexone (NTX), and to investigate the efficacy of these compounds to block oxycodone-induced reinstatement in …