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Mathematical Analysis of the Durations of Reinforced Inter-Response Times during Variable Interval Reinforcement

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 January 2025

Samuel H. Revusky
Samuel H. Revusky*
Affiliation:
VA Hospital, Northampton, Massachusetts
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Abstract

In a free-responding situation in which reinforcements are scheduled by a variable interval program, the durations of reinforced inter-response times are shown to be a function of the durations of all inter-response times produced by S and of the frequency of reinforcement.

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Psychometrika , Volume 27 , Issue 3 , September 1962 , pp. 307 - 314
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Copyright © 1962 The Psychometric Society

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Based on a portion of the author's doctoral dissertation, and supported in part by an NIMH predoctoral research fellowship. Suggestions by W. K. Estes increased the intelligibility of this paper.

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