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dc.contributor.advisor | Platt, J.R. | en_US |
dc.contributor.author | Scott, Kenneth Gregory | en_US |
dc.date.accessioned | 2014-06-18T17:01:22Z | - |
dc.date.available | 2014-06-18T17:01:22Z | - |
dc.date.created | 2013-05-10 | en_US |
dc.date.issued | 1982-08 | en_US |
dc.identifier.other | opendissertations/7776 | en_US |
dc.identifier.other | 8871 | en_US |
dc.identifier.other | 4123750 | en_US |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/11375/12932 | - |
dc.description.abstract | <p>The experiments reported in this thesis investigated the effect of response-reinforcer contingency on response differentiation. Since the failure to control response probability in previous studies had led to difficulties. the present experiments employed percentile schedules to control response probability. Response-reinforcer contingency was indexed by the measure of statistical association between two dichotomous variables known as the phi coefficient (ϕ). and a model of this independent variable was developed to permit a systematic investigation of contingency in operant conditioning. This model was tested using rats in a spatial response differentiation paradigm. The results of three experiments revealed that the higher the value of ϕ. the more effective the shaping of response location to a target location. Despite differences between experiments in the way the independent variable was manipulated. across all three experiments there was a very orderly relationship between asymptotic conditioning and ϕ. These experiments demonstrate the importance of response-reinforcer contingency in response differentiation and provide support for a model of contingency in operant conditioning based on ϕ.</p> | en_US |
dc.subject | Psychology | en_US |
dc.subject | Psychology | en_US |
dc.title | A Model of Response-Reinforcer Contingency | en_US |
dc.type | thesis | en_US |
dc.contributor.department | Psychology | en_US |
dc.description.degree | Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) | en_US |
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