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The ability of periodic water reinforcement schedules to induce or entrain activities was investigated by having observers classify mutually exclusive and exhaustive activities of 10 rats placed in a rich environment with various fixed-time schedules of water delivery. For each activity measured, three characteristics of induced behavior were examined: (1) its excessiveness; (2) the commonly observed inverted-U relation between rate of induced behavior and rate of reinforcement; and (3) the observation that induced activities occur earlier in interreinforcement intervals than do facultative activities, producing multimodal activity distributions. All activities were demonstrated to be noninduced, facultative activities, and none could be classified as schedule-induced behavior by any of the three criteria. The factors that determine the temporal distributions of all activities appeared to be equivalent to the factors that determine the distributions of scheduleinduced activities in situations in which only the induced activities are available.
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This report was supported by grants from the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México and the Consejo Nacional de Ciencia y Tecnología in Mexico (Alliston K. Reid, principal investigator) and by grants from the National Science Foundation to Duke University (John E. R. Staddon, principal investigator).
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Reid, A.K., Vazquez, P.P. & Rico, J.A. Schedule induction and the temporal distributions of adjunctive behavior on periodic water schedules. Animal Learning & Behavior 13, 321–326 (1985). https://doi.org/10.3758/BF03200027
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