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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Boakes, Robert A
• Miller, Ralph R

Titel

Reply to Pellón and Killeen's (2015) Commentary on Boakes, Patterson, Kendig, and Harris (2015)

Ist Teil von

• Journal of experimental psychology. Animal behavior processes, 2015-10, Vol.41 (4), p.452-453

Ort / Verlag

United States: American Psychological Association

Erscheinungsjahr

2015

Quelle

MEDLINE

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• This reply notes the importance of data from variable-time schedules for resolving the issue of whether competition from magazine approach behavior is a major factor responsible for the concentration of schedule-induced drinking early in interpellet intervals. Pellón and Killeen propose that this temporal distribution of schedule-induced drinking reflects the effectiveness of adventitious reinforcement of this behavior over a delay, as detailed in their model. However, there is no evidence to support either of their key assumptions: (a) that schedule-induced behaviors are maintained by adventitious reinforcement ("are operants") and (b) that behaviors vary in their sensitivity to a delay before the subsequent occurrence of a reinforcer.