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Concurrent Responses with Multiple Schedules

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The response rate in the presence of one stimulus and its associated schedule depends also upon the schedules associated with temporally adjacent stimuli. Alternations between schedule components associated with different stimuli are traditionally referred to as multiple schedules (Ferster and Skinner, 1957). Reynolds (1961b) suggested that interactions in multiple schedules might be described as contrast or induction, depending upon whether the changes in response rate diverge or converge across schedule components. Furthermore, contrast and induction may be either positive or negative, depending upon direction of change in response rate. Positive contrast, for example, refers to an increase in response rate in one schedule component simultaneously with a decreased rate in an adjacent component.

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Iversen, I.H. (1978). Concurrent Responses with Multiple Schedules. In: Classical Conditioning and Operant Conditioning. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4612-6310-4_5

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