Behavioral economics and within-session changes in responding.

Behavioral economics and within-session changes in responding.

Pigeons and rats responded on fixed-ratio schedules with requirements ranging from 5 to 120 responses. Consistent with past results from several schedules and procedures, responding usually changed systematically within experimental sessions. The within-session changes were usually larger and were less symmetrical around the middle of the session for schedules that provided higher, rather than ...

Towards a mathematical model of within-session operant responding.

Operant response rate changes within the course of a typical free-operant experimental session. These changes are orderly, and reliably demonstrated with subjects from different species, responding under different experimental conditions. Killeen (1995) postulated that the response rate changes are a function of the interplay between arousal and satiation and offered a mathematical model for th...

Within-session patterns of responding during functional analyses: the role of establishing operations in clarifying behavioral function.

Functional analysis procedures have been demonstrated to be effective for identifying the operant mechanisms underlying problem behavior. However, functional analyses sometimes yield results that are undifferentiated (i.e., show similar levels of responding across test conditions). Within-session (i.e., minute-by-minute) analyses of response patterns during undifferentiated functional analyses ...

Behavioral Economics Introduction: Definitions and Naming Problems in Behavioral Economics

Investigating the Rationality of Behavioral Economics in Mental Accounting by ‎Studying Laboratory Economics

The purpose of this study is to investigate the rationality of behavioral economics in mental accounting by studying laboratory economics. Undoubtedly, economic man, whose fundamental characteristic is rationality, is the starting point for economic analysis. In conventional economics, the premise of rationality is the cornerstone and the premise of all economic theories. However, critics of ec...