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Six pigeons were exposed to chained and tandem fixed-ratio schedules in which this ratio requirement in each of the 10 components was one [FR 10 (FR 1)]. The results obtained suggest similarities between a conventionally defined unit of behavior, such as a single keypeck, and the sequences of schedule-controlled behavior, which are treated as unitary responses in other second-order schedules.
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Blackman, D.E., Thomas, G.V. & Bond, N.W. Second-order fixed-ratio schedules. Psychon Sci 21, 53–55 (1970). https://doi.org/10.3758/BF03332431
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