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Article: Data on behavior research published by researchers at Fordham University.
- Article from:
- Psychology & Psychiatry Journal
- Article date:
- March 7, 2009
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"This experiment compared descriptions of concurrent choice by the stay/switch model, which says choice is a function of the reinforcers obtained for staying at. and for switching from each alternative, and die generalized matching law, which says choice is it function of the total reinforcers obtained at each alternative. For the stay/switch model two schedules operate when at each alternative," researchers in the United States report.
"One arranges reinforcers for staying there and tire other arranges reinforcers for switching front there. Rats were exposed to eight or nine conditions that differed in the arrangement of the values of the stay and switch ...