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Confounding variables in the discriminated Irt procedure.

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dc.contributor.authorPalmer, David C.
dc.contributor.departmentUniversity of Massachusetts Amherst
dc.contributor.departmentPsychology
dc.date2023-09-23T13:25:37.000
dc.date.accessioned2024-04-26T20:51:50Z
dc.date.available2024-04-26T20:51:50Z
dc.date.issued1983
dc.description.abstractWhen discriminated IRT procedures have been used to determine preference relations among temporally extended operants, deviations from predictions of the matching law have been found (Hawkes and Shimp, 1974). Using a yoked-control procedure, the present study shows that keypecking in the discriminated IRT procedure has two sources of strength, that arising from the stimulus-reinforcer contingency and that arising from the response-reinforcer contingency Three out of four yoked birds autoshaped to the keylight, and all lead birds showed evidence of control by the keylight under some conditions. As any control of keypecking by the keylight, either discriminated or autoshaped, contributes to deviations from matching, the discriminated IRT procedure does not permit one to draw strong conclusions about preference relations among IRTs.
dc.description.degreeThesis (M.S.)
dc.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.7275/kdd0-5782
dc.identifier.oclc32294956
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14394/45833
dc.relation.urlhttps://scholarworks.umass.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=3412&context=theses&unstamped=1
dc.source.statuspublished
dc.subjectPigeons
dc.subjectResponse consistency
dc.subjectReinforcement (Psychology)
dc.titleConfounding variables in the discriminated Irt procedure.
dc.typeopen
dc.typearticle
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digcom.contributor.authorPalmer, David C.
digcom.identifiertheses/2276
digcom.identifier.contextkey7675986
digcom.identifier.submissionpaththeses/2276
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