Pigeon Project

Abstract

Several problems were explored in the chaining of responses, particularly in connection with the effect of a delay before reinforcement. The major part of the work has been concerned with the effects of different schedules of reinforcement and different contingencies of reinforcement upon probability or frequency of response.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jun 01, 1952
Accession Number
AD0495775

Entities

People

  • B. F. Skinner
  • C. B. Ferster

Organizations

  • Harvard University

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Energy and Power Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Animal Behavior
  • Body Weight
  • Clocks
  • Contracts
  • Dead Time
  • Discrimination
  • Experimental Data
  • Extinction
  • Food Deprivation
  • Frequency
  • Human Behavior
  • Intervals
  • Materials
  • Reaction Time
  • Resonant Frequency
  • Steady State
  • Visual Acuity

Fields of Study

  • Biology
  • Psychology

Readers

  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Brain and Cognitive Science; Experimental Psychology; Cognitive Neuroscience
  • Technical Research and Report Writing.