INTERACTION OF PROCEDURAL FACTORS IN HUMAN PERFORMANCE ON YOKED SCHEDULES
| Autor: | Harold L. Miller, Christopher P. Raia, Stephen W. Shillingford, Phillip S. Baier |
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| Rok vydání: | 2000 |
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Male Schedule Reinforcement Schedule Adolescent Control (management) Experimental and Cognitive Psychology Differential effects Developmental psychology Task (project management) Random Allocation Behavioral Neuroscience Video Games Contextual variable Joystick Conditioning Operant Humans Consummatory Behavior Reinforcement Psychology Reinforcement Psychology Video game Research Article Cognitive psychology |
| Zdroj: | Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior. 74:265-281 |
| ISSN: | 0022-5002 |
| DOI: | 10.1901/jeab.2000.74-265 |
| Popis: | The differential effects of reinforcement contingencies and contextual variables on human performance were investigated in two experiments. In Experiment 1, adult human subjects operated a joystick in a video game in which the destruction of targets was arranged according to a yoked variable-ratio variable-interval schedule of reinforcement. Three variables were examined across 12 conditions: verbal instructions, shaping, and the use of a consummatory response following reinforcement (i.e., depositing a coin into a bank). Behavior was most responsive to the reinforcement contingencies when the consummatory response was available, responding was established by shaping, and subjects received minimal verbal instructions about their task. The responsiveness of variable-interval subjects' behavior varied more than that of variable-ratio subjects when these contextual factors were altered. Experiment 2 examined resistance to instructional control under the same yoked-schedules design. Conditions varied in terms of the validity of instructions. Performance on variable-ratio schedules was more resistant to instructional control than that on variable-interval schedules. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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