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Concurrent Schedules: Response versus Reinforcement Interaction

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The fact is now well established that presentation of reinforcers contingent upon a specific response will usually increase the rate of that response, and subsequent removal of reinforcers will decrease the response rate (Skinner, 1938). Skinner once briefly introduced and quickly withdrew a principle stating that the rate (strength) of one response (R) might be directly proportional to the absolute reinforcement rate (r) for that response; expressed mathematically,

$$ R = Kr. $$
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Iversen, I.H. (1978). Concurrent Schedules: Response versus Reinforcement Interaction. In: Classical Conditioning and Operant Conditioning. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4612-6310-4_4

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