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Revisiting conjugate schedules
Kenneth R MacAleese1, Patrick M Ghezzi2, John T Rapp3
1Advanced Child Behavior Solutions, LLC.
Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior
|July 8, 2015
Summary
College students
Area of Science:
- Behavioral Psychology
- Operant Conditioning
Background:
- Conjugate reinforcement involves response-dependent consequences.
- Understanding its effects on behavior is crucial for applied settings.
Purpose of the Study:
- To investigate the impact of conjugate reinforcement on college students' responding.
- To examine sensitivity to reinforcement intensity and different schedule conditions.
Main Methods:
- Three experiments were conducted with college students.
- Key presses altered picture clarity proportionally to response rate.
- Varied parameters included clarity change per response, reinforcement, extinction, and negative punishment.
Main Results:
- Responding decreased as reinforcement intensity (clarity change per response) increased.
- Responding increased during conjugate reinforcement and decreased during extinction.
- Responding decreased under conjugate negative punishment.
Conclusions:
- College student responding is sensitive to the intensity of conjugate reinforcement.
- Conjugate reinforcement schedules effectively control behavior, showing increases during reinforcement and decreases during extinction and negative punishment.
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