The Effects of Shaping and Instruction-based Procedures on Behavioral Variability during Acquisition and Extinction
Description:
This study examined effects of two response acquisition procedures on topography of responding using the revealed operant technique and compared results to previous experiments on this topic. Subjects emitted 100 repetitions each of 4 response patterns on a continuous schedule of reinforcement. A 30-min extinction condition followed acquisition. One group of subjects learned the first response through a series of shaping steps designed to reduce acquisition variability. Another group of subject…
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Date:
December 1999
Creator:
McCary, Donald