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The role of the peck-food contingency on fixed-interval schedules.

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Staddon, JE; Frank, JA
Published in: Journal of the experimental analysis of behavior
January 1975

Pigeons were trained to peck on a fixed-interval schedule of food reinforcement and then exposed to three schedules in which there was either no, or an indirect, relation between pecking and food delivery: (a) a conjunctive schedule in which food was delivered at fixed intervals, providing at least one peck was emitted in the interval; (b) a recycling version of the conjunctive schedule that essentially eliminated occasional peck-food contiguities (recycling conjunctive); (c) delivery of food at fixed intervals independently of the birds' behavior (fixed time). The rates and patterns of pecking sustained by these procedures depended on interfood interval and relative proximity of pecks to food.

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Published In

Journal of the experimental analysis of behavior

DOI

EISSN

1938-3711

ISSN

0022-5002

Publication Date

January 1975

Volume

23

Issue

1

Start / End Page

17 / 23

Related Subject Headings

  • Behavioral Science & Comparative Psychology
  • 5204 Cognitive and computational psychology
  • 5202 Biological psychology
  • 5201 Applied and developmental psychology
  • 1702 Cognitive Sciences
  • 1701 Psychology
 

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Staddon, J. E., & Frank, J. A. (1975). The role of the peck-food contingency on fixed-interval schedules. Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior, 23(1), 17–23. https://doi.org/10.1901/jeab.1975.23-17
Staddon, J. E., and J. A. Frank. “The role of the peck-food contingency on fixed-interval schedules.Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior 23, no. 1 (January 1975): 17–23. https://doi.org/10.1901/jeab.1975.23-17.
Staddon JE, Frank JA. The role of the peck-food contingency on fixed-interval schedules. Journal of the experimental analysis of behavior. 1975 Jan;23(1):17–23.
Staddon, J. E., and J. A. Frank. “The role of the peck-food contingency on fixed-interval schedules.Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior, vol. 23, no. 1, Jan. 1975, pp. 17–23. Epmc, doi:10.1901/jeab.1975.23-17.
Staddon JE, Frank JA. The role of the peck-food contingency on fixed-interval schedules. Journal of the experimental analysis of behavior. 1975 Jan;23(1):17–23.

Published In

Journal of the experimental analysis of behavior

DOI

EISSN

1938-3711

ISSN

0022-5002

Publication Date

January 1975

Volume

23

Issue

1

Start / End Page

17 / 23

Related Subject Headings

  • Behavioral Science & Comparative Psychology
  • 5204 Cognitive and computational psychology
  • 5202 Biological psychology
  • 5201 Applied and developmental psychology
  • 1702 Cognitive Sciences
  • 1701 Psychology