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Peer reviewedWylie, A. Michael; Grosmann, J. A. – Journal of Applied Behavior Analysis, 1988
The study evaluated the effectiveness of superimposition and subsequent removal of a schedule of continuous reinforcement (CRF) as a rate-decreasing procedure in efforts to eliminate unwanted behaviors. Examination of lever-pressing patterns of eight male rats showed responding was substantially reduced during the superimposition of CRF but…
Descriptors: Animal Behavior, Behavior Modification, Behavior Patterns, Behavior Problems
Peer reviewedMachado, Armando – Psychological Review, 1997
A dynamic model of how animals learn to regulate their behavior under time-based reinforcement schedules is presented. It assumes serial activation of behavioral states during the inter-reinforcement interval, an associative process linking the states and operant response, and a rule mapping the states onto response rate. (SLD)
Descriptors: Animal Behavior, Animals, Association (Psychology), Behavior Patterns
