Time and rate measures in choice transitions

Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior
D T Cerutti, J E R Staddon

Abstract

Three experiments with pigeons studied the relation between time and rate measures of behavior under conditions of changing preference. Experiment 1 studied a concurrent chain schedule with random-interval initial links and fixed-interval terminal links; Experiment 2 studied a multiple chained random-interval fixed-interval schedule; and Experiment 3 studied simple concurrent random-interval random-interval schedules. In Experiment 1, and to a lesser extent in the other two experiments, session-average initial-link wait-time differences were linearly related to session-average response-rate differences. In Experiment 1, and to a lesser extent in Experiment 3, ratios of session-average initial-link wait times and response rates were related by a power function. The weaker relations between wait and response measures in Experiment 2 appear to be due to the absence of competition between responses. In Experiments 1 and 2, initial-link changes lagged behind terminal-link changes. These findings may have implications for the relations between fixed- and variable-interval procedures and suggest that more attention should be paid to temporal measures in studies of free-operant choice.

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Jul 22, 2009·Psychological Review·J JozefowiezD T Cerutti
Apr 21, 2005·Journal of Experimental Psychology. Animal Behavior Processes·Jeremie JozefowiezJohn E R Staddon
Jul 13, 2006·Journal of Experimental Psychology. Animal Behavior Processes·Jeremie JozefowiezJ E R Staddon
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