The Performance of Adult Alcoholics Working for Alcohol*: A Detailed Operant Analysis
| Autor: | Peter E. Nathan, John S. O'Brien, Richard M. Sanders |
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| Rok vydání: | 1976 |
| Předmět: |
Adult
Male Behavior Time Factors Alcohol Drinking business.industry Medicine (miscellaneous) Human factors and ergonomics Chronic alcoholic Poison control Alcohol Middle Aged Suicide prevention Occupational safety and health Developmental psychology Alcoholism Psychiatry and Mental health chemistry.chemical_compound chemistry Injury prevention Humans Medicine business Reinforcement Reinforcement Psychology |
| Zdroj: | Addiction. 71:307-319 |
| ISSN: | 1360-0443 0965-2140 |
| DOI: | 10.1111/j.1360-0443.1976.tb00101.x |
| Popis: | Eight chronic alcoholics served as subjects in a residential facility. They were required to make a simple repetitious response in order to earn points exchangeable for social, appetitive, and alcohol reinforcers. Over the course of this project, rates of responding for points on two schedules of reinforcement were observed as were patterns of drinking, working, sleeping, and socializing; the effects of alcohol on the subject's performance; and the influences of alcohol as a reinforcer. The foldings indicated by the detailed analysis provided by the methodology were not in complete agreement with some of the more coarsely analyzed data of similar experiments, e.g. the subjects worked for points during episodes of drinking more often than not. Additionally, new findings were shown, e.g., the subjects did not save points ahead but worked and drank in a “hand-to-mouth” manner in relatively short drinking and working cycles. Finally, many of the findings were in agreement with data reported earlier by other authors. Some implications for the control of alcoholic behavior are discussed. |
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