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Schedules of Reinforcement

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Most people in the broad field of psychopharmacology are aware of schedules and can give a definition of some common schedules of reinforcement such as FR and FI. One can still distinguish, however, between an increasing group of workers who explicitly use and study schedule effects and the rest, who regard schedule effects as limited in scope, largely irrelevant to their interests, and perhaps a little mysterious. This chapter is addressed to the latter group. An elementary knowledge of schedules and techniques is assumed. Good introductory accounts of schedules in behavioral pharmacology are now available (e.g., Iversen and Iversen, 1975; Thompson and Schuster, 1968). An exhaustive review of schedule effects in psychopharmacology is far beyond our scope, so this account will be more of a commentary, attempting to clarify theory.

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