FREQUENCY DISTRIBUTION OF INTERRESPONSE TIMES DURING VI AND VR REINFORCEMENT.

W KINTSCH

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PMID: 14342377 DOI: 10.1901/jeab.1965.8-347

A detailed analysis was made of the interresponse times (IRTs) of two rats under both a VI 40-sec and a VR 15-sec schedule. Except for the latency of the first response after a reinforcement, the mean IRTs of all further responses differed little. Similarly, the frequency distributions of the successive IRTs did not vary greatly, but were of no simple form. Sequential dependencies between successive IRTs were small, never accounting for more than 1% of the variance.

EXPERIMENTAL LAB STUDY RATS REACTION TIME REINFORCEMENT (PSYCHOLOGY) STATISTICS

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Rats

Reaction Time

Reinforcement, Psychology

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