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A raccoon, given a choice to respond for food pellets on either a FI 30-sec schedule or a FR schedule, the response requirement of which was systematically varied, preferred the FR schedule only when the rate of reinforcement on the FR schedule exceeded the rate of reinforcement on the FI schedule by a factor of two. The highly efficient responding of the raccoon on the FI schedule was noted as encouragement for using this species more frequently in operant learning paradigms.
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Supported in part by Public Health Research Grants MG-08775 and MH-12025 from the National Institute of Mental Health, R. W. Schaeffer, principal investigator.
Appreciation is extended to Robert Bobbitt for competent and reliable assistance in the collection of this data.
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King, G.D., Schaeffer, R.W. & Pierson, S.C. Reinforcement schedule preference of a raccoon (Procyon lotor). Bull. Psychon. Soc. 4, 97–99 (1974). https://doi.org/10.3758/BF03334208
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.3758/BF03334208