Response latency as a function of reinforcement schedule1

Response latency as a function of brain stimulation variables.

It has been demonstrated that electrical stimulation of certain brain structures in the cat (Delgado, Roberts, & Miller, 1954) and rat (Bower & Miller, 1959) produces an aversive effect; that is, the animal will perform an escape response which turns off stimulation to these sites. The present study reports the effects on escape behavior of rats of variations in certain parameters of brain stim...

Response Force as a Function of Amount of Reinforcement.

5 groups of 6 rats each were trained to press an isometric lever and were rewarded with either 1, 2, 3, 4, or S 20-mg. pellets on responses meeting or exceeding an 8-gm. force criterion. After 10 Acquisition sessions all Ss were shifted to 3 pellets for 6 further sessions and then received 2 Extinction sessions. Both force and variability of bar pressing varied inversely with amount of reward b...

Response Latency As

Relative and absolute strength of response as a function of frequency of reinforcement.

A previous paper (Herrnstein, 1958) reported how pigeons behave on a concurrent schedule under which they peck at either of two response-keys. The significant finding of this investigation was that the relative frequency of responding to each of the keys may be controlled within narrow limits by adjustments in an independent variable. In brief, the requirement for reinforcement in this procedur...

RESPONSE LATENCY AND RESPONSE ACCURACY AS MEASURES OF MEMORY * Cohn

The relationship is examined between response accuracy and response latency as measures of memory, and questions are raised concerning the value of the unidimensionality assumption often invoked in theories of memory. Three paired-associate experiments investigated the effects of the length of the retention interval, the kind of processing during incidental learning. and the number of study ver...