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Showing 1 to 7 of 7 for “"Response Effort"”.
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Progressive Response Effort Preference Assessments
… Recently, research has begun to examine responses and reinforcers from a behavioral economic perspective. The present study compared responding in a situation where the price of one item was increased, but the price of alternative items remained the same, to a situation where the price of …
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Negative Reinforcement by Timeout from Avoidance: The Roles of Discriminative Cues, Shock-Frequency Reduction, and Response-Effort Reduction
… postponed shocks according to a schedule with a response-shock interval of 30 s and a shock-shock interval of 5 s, and pressing the left lever produced 2-min timeouts according to a variable-interval 45-s schedule. To assess the roles of shock-frequency reduction, response-effort reduction, and …
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Evaluation of absolute and relative reinforcer value using progressive ratio schedules
… stimuli and under gradually increasing response requirements. The results suggest that for cases in which a high-preferred stimulus is unavailable or unfeasible, the contingent delivery of relatively less-preferred stimuli may maintain appropriate behavior, even as response effort is …
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The response to Hurricane Katrina : a study of the Coast Guard's culture, organizational design & leadership in crisis
… to many disaster planners. The subsequent response to the destruction and needs of those caught in the storm's wake resulted in widespread criticism of local, state, and federal organizations and governments. One agency that received widespread praise for its response to Katrina was the …
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Determining the Effects of Basic Feedback and Directive Feedback Environments on Task Productivity, Accuracy, Perceived Stress, Control and Demand under Forced Choice and Mixed Choice Progressive Ratio Schedules of Reinforcement
Performance feedback may serve as one or more types of stimulation in the behavioral contingency. In organizational settings, leaders, managers, and workers benefit from well-designed behavior control systems. These systems may contribute at differing levels of efficacy towards maximizing measures …
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THE EFFECTS OF GROSS-MOTOR FLUENCY TRAINING ON PHYSICAL ACTIVITY LEVELS IN YOUNG CHILDREN
… increased the proficiency, and decreased the response effort required for skill performance; enabled the participant’s to combine gross-motor component skills into composite chains; and facilitated generalization of gross-motor skills training to play. Fluency-based gross-motor instruction …
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AN INVESTIGATION OF VARIABLES CONTRIBUTING TO DISORDERED GAMBLING AND SLOT MACHINE PLAY
… machines as indicated in Experiment I. Response effort during the work task was evaluated under a progressive ratio schedule of reinforcement to determine the degree to which the individual would work to gain access to the machine. Participant break points were compared across the two …