Immediacy versus anticipated delay in the time-left experiment: a test of the cognitive hypothesis.
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Cerutti, DT; Staddon, JER
Published in: Journal of experimental psychology. Animal behavior processes
January 2004
In the time-left experiment (J. Gibbon & R. M. Church, 1981), animals are said to compare an expectation of a fixed delay to food, for one choice, with a decreasing delay expectation for the other, mentally representing both upcoming time to food and the difference between current time and upcoming time (the cognitive hypothesis). The results of 2 experiments support a simpler view: that animals choose according to the immediacies of reinforcement for each response at a time signaled by available time markers (the temporal control hypothesis). It is not necessary to assume that animals can either represent or subtract representations of times to food to explain the results of the time-left experiment.
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Journal of experimental psychology. Animal behavior processes
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1939-2184
ISSN
0097-7403
Publication Date
January 2004
Volume
30
Issue
1
Start / End Page
45 / 57
Related Subject Headings
- Time Perception
- Reinforcement, Psychology
- Reinforcement Schedule
- Psychological Theory
- Models, Psychological
- Male
- Columbidae
- Cognition
- Choice Behavior
- Behavioral Science & Comparative Psychology
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Cerutti, D. T., & Staddon, J. E. R. (2004). Immediacy versus anticipated delay in the time-left experiment: a test of the cognitive hypothesis. Journal of Experimental Psychology. Animal Behavior Processes, 30(1), 45–57. https://doi.org/10.1037/0097-7403.30.1.45
Cerutti, D. T., and J. E. R. Staddon. “Immediacy versus anticipated delay in the time-left experiment: a test of the cognitive hypothesis.” Journal of Experimental Psychology. Animal Behavior Processes 30, no. 1 (January 2004): 45–57. https://doi.org/10.1037/0097-7403.30.1.45.
Cerutti DT, Staddon JER. Immediacy versus anticipated delay in the time-left experiment: a test of the cognitive hypothesis. Journal of experimental psychology Animal behavior processes. 2004 Jan;30(1):45–57.
Cerutti, D. T., and J. E. R. Staddon. “Immediacy versus anticipated delay in the time-left experiment: a test of the cognitive hypothesis.” Journal of Experimental Psychology. Animal Behavior Processes, vol. 30, no. 1, Jan. 2004, pp. 45–57. Epmc, doi:10.1037/0097-7403.30.1.45.
Cerutti DT, Staddon JER. Immediacy versus anticipated delay in the time-left experiment: a test of the cognitive hypothesis. Journal of experimental psychology Animal behavior processes. 2004 Jan;30(1):45–57.
Published In
Journal of experimental psychology. Animal behavior processes
DOI
EISSN
1939-2184
ISSN
0097-7403
Publication Date
January 2004
Volume
30
Issue
1
Start / End Page
45 / 57
Related Subject Headings
- Time Perception
- Reinforcement, Psychology
- Reinforcement Schedule
- Psychological Theory
- Models, Psychological
- Male
- Columbidae
- Cognition
- Choice Behavior
- Behavioral Science & Comparative Psychology