Response effects of response-dependent and clock-dependent fixed-interval schedules of reinforcement

Fixed-time schedule effects in combination with response-dependent schedules.

We evaluated the effects of fixed-interval (FI), fixed-time (FT), and conjoint (combined) FI FT reinforcement schedules on the responding of 3 adults who had been diagnosed with schizophrenia. Responding on vocational tasks decreased for 2 of 3 participants under FT alone relative to FI alone. Responding under FI FT resulted in response persistence for 2 of 3 participants. Results have implicat...

The effects of variable-interval and fixed-interval signal presentation schedules on the auditory evoked response.

Averaged auditory evoked responses to 1000-Hz 20-msec tone bursts were obtained from normal-hearing adults under two different intersignal interval schedules: (1) a fixed-interval schedule with 2-sec intersignal intervals, and (2) a variable-interval schedule of intersignal intervals ranging randomly from 1.0 sec to 4.5 sec with a mean of 2 see. Peak-to-peak amplitudes (N1P~) as well as latenci...

Reinforcement-based response elimination: the effects of response-reinforcement interval and response specificity

The effects of fixed-time reinforcement schedules on functional response classes: a translational study.

Research on functional response classes has applied significance because less severe forms of problem behavior have been found to co-occur with more severe forms. In addition, the most severe forms of problem behavior are sometimes targeted for intervention without monitoring other less severe forms. In such cases, it is unknown whether and how untreated forms of problem behavior covary with th...

Differential reinforcement of other behavior and response suppression: the effects of the response-reinforcement interval