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Choice and the Initial Delay to a Reinforcer

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Pigeons were trained in two experiments that used the concurrent-chains proce-dure. These experiments sought to identify the variables controlling the prefer-ence of pigeons for a constant duration over a variable duration of exposure to an aperiodic, time-based, terminal-link schedule. The results indicated that two variables correlated with the constant-duration terminal link combined to con-trol preference: (a) a shorter initial delay to a rein forcer; and (b) the probabilistic occurrence of multiple rein forcers.

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Moore, J. Choice and the Initial Delay to a Reinforcer. Psychol Rec 58, 191–214 (2008). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF03395611

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