Choice, foraging, and reinforcer duration.

Abstract:

:Pigeons were exposed to a foraging schedule characterized by three different states, beginning with a search state in which completion of a variable interval on a white key led to a choice state. In the choice state the subject could, by appropriate responding on a fixed ratio of three, either accept or reject the schedule offered. If the subject accepted the schedule, it entered a handling state in which the appropriate reinforcer amount was presented according to a variable-interval schedule. In Experiment 1 the shorter duration reinforcer was more likely to be accepted the longer the duration of the search state and the shorter the equal durations of the handling states. In Experiment 2 the shorter duration reinforcer was more likely to be accepted the longer the handling time preceding the longer duration reinforcer. All of the results were in qualitative--and some were in quantitative--agreement with those predicted by the delay-reduction hypothesis and the optimal-diet model.

journal_name

J Exp Anal Behav

authors

Ito M,Fantino E

doi

10.1901/jeab.1986.46-93

subject

Has Abstract

pub_date

1986-07-01 00:00:00

pages

93-103

issue

1

eissn

0022-5002

issn

1938-3711

journal_volume

46

pub_type

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