JOURNAL OF THE EXPERIMENTAL ANALYSIS OF BEHAVIOR DISTRIBUTIONAL PROPERTIES OF OPERANT-LEVEL LOCOMOTION IN THE RAT'

  • David Premack
  • Robert
  • W. Schaeffer
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Publication date
February 2015

Abstract

Four rats had continuous access to activity wheels first, then access for 1 hr per day, and, subsequently, continuous access. Limiting S's access to the wheel substantially increased the total frequency of running. A distributional analysis of response duration, burst duration, and interburst interval showed that the increased frequency arose almost entirely from a shorten-ing of the interval between successive bursts. In contrast, speed of the individual response and number of responses per burst changed only negligibly. If S were running, the prob-ability that it would either stop or continue did not differ appreciably for the conditions of continuous or limited access to the wheel. But if S were not running, the probability that it ...

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