PSYC 350 Chapter Notes - Chapter 9: Hyperbolic Function, Matching Law, Power Law
3 Mar 2018
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Relevant sections from chapter 9: choice and preference. Intro: choice: the allocation of behavior among different sources of reinforcement, preference: a source of reinforcement (option) that is selected more often than others. Intro: everyday life is complex; there are often multiple behavioral options with different rates and amounts of reinforcement, the choice paradigm, the two-key procedure, can experimentally explore choice and preference through concurrent schedules of reinforcement. It is inadvertently reinforced since rate of switching is correlated with overall rate of reinforcement: the changeover delay (cod, this is a necessary control procedure to prevent the rapid switching described above. Following a switch, a short interval of time (e. g. 3 s) must pass before a response will be reinforced: experimental procedures for studying choice. Ideally, an experimenter should use concurrent vi schedules and require a cod: the findley procedure, this is in contrast to the previous procedures, which were two-key procedures. Here, there is one response key that changes color.
