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Choice behaviour of pigeons: effect of variation in amount and delay of reinforcement in presence and absence of discriminative stimuli

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dc.contributor.author Harvey, Valerie Catherine
dc.date.accessioned 2011-09-12T21:20:40Z
dc.date.accessioned 2022-10-30T20:48:33Z
dc.date.available 2011-09-12T21:20:40Z
dc.date.available 2022-10-30T20:48:33Z
dc.date.copyright 1984
dc.date.issued 1984
dc.identifier.uri https://ir.wgtn.ac.nz/handle/123456789/26168
dc.description.abstract Pigeons were offered a choice between two durations of reinforcement, one delayed 6 sec longer than the other. Within each session choice was made immediately, 2.5 sec, or 10 sec prior to delivery of the earlier reinforcer. The two reinforcer durations were varied over conditions that had either blackout (no cue) or discriminative stimuli (cue) in the delays. Preference for the larger more delayed reinforcer increased with increased delay until reinforcement. Preference was lower in the no cue conditions than in the corresponding cue conditions. The finding that sensitivity of initial link response ratios to ratios of amount and delay deviated from 1.0, has implications for the use of the matching law in studies that vary these reinforcer parameters. The generalised matching law which assumes such deviation gave a good account of the present data. en_NZ
dc.format pdf en_NZ
dc.language en_NZ
dc.language.iso en_NZ
dc.publisher Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington en_NZ
dc.title Choice behaviour of pigeons: effect of variation in amount and delay of reinforcement in presence and absence of discriminative stimuli en_NZ
dc.type Text en_NZ
vuwschema.type.vuw Awarded Research Masters Thesis en_NZ
thesis.degree.discipline Psychology en_NZ
thesis.degree.grantor Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington en_NZ
thesis.degree.level Masters en_NZ


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