BI308 Chapter Notes - Chapter 6: Land Development, Matching Law, Response Bias
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Ps261 chapter 6 notes schedules of reinforcement and choice behaviour. More often, reinforcement is delivered only some of the time, and according to a specific schedule. A schedule of reinforcement is a plan that specifies when a response will be followed by reinforcement. In this schedule, reinforcement can depend on the number of responses or the passage of time. Continuous reinforcement, crf every time you do something, you always get reinforcement. Intermittent reinforcement if only some of the responses lead to reinforcement. Pattern of responding = slopes of the lines that we see on the cumulative recorder for each schedule. Each schedule of reinforcement produces a signature pattern of responding on the cumulative recorder. In a ratio schedule, reinforcement depends entirely on the number of responses an organism has to do, regardless of how long it takes for that response requirement to be completed.
