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Human Suboptimal Choice: Identifying Alternative Procedures
Suboptimal choice refers 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 …
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Negative Discriminative Stimulus as Punishing Consequence: A new approach to behavioural change
… S+ alternatives produced S-, the proportion of choice to that alternative decreased compared with when responses to either alternative did not produce S-. Therefore, the contingent S-stimulus punished response rate and shifted choice. The second study investigated whether a contingent S-stimulus …