• Login
    View Item 
    •   Maryland Shared Open Access Repository Home
    • ScholarWorks@UMBC
    • UMBC College of Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences
    • UMBC Psychology Department
    • View Item
    •   Maryland Shared Open Access Repository Home
    • ScholarWorks@UMBC
    • UMBC College of Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences
    • UMBC Psychology Department
    • View Item
    JavaScript is disabled for your browser. Some features of this site may not work without it.

    Consumption and response output as a function of unit price: manipulation of cost and benefit components

    Thumbnail
    Links to Files
    https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2741056/
    Permanent Link
    https://dx.doi.org/10.1901%2Fjaba.2009.42-609
    http://hdl.handle.net/11603/18078
    Collections
    • UMBC Psychology Department
    Metadata
    Show full item record
    Author/Creator
    Delmendo, Xeres
    Borrero, John C.
    Beauchamp, Kenneth L.
    Francisco, Monica T.
    Date
    2009-08
    Type of Work
    17 pages
    Text
    journal articles
    Citation of Original Publication
    Delmendo, Xeres; Borrero, John C.; Beauchamp, Kenneth L.; Francisco, Monica T.; Consumption and response output as a function of unit price: manipulation of cost and benefit components; Journal of Applied Behavior Analysis, 42(3): 609–625 (2009); https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2741056/
    Rights
    This item is likely protected under Title 17 of the U.S. Copyright Law. Unless on a Creative Commons license, for uses protected by Copyright Law, contact the copyright holder or the author.
    Subjects
    behavioral economics
    costs and benefits
    preference assessment
    reinforcer demand
    unit price
    Abstract
    We conducted preference assessments with 4 typically developing children to identify potential reinforcers and assessed the reinforcing efficacy of those stimuli. Next, we tested two predictions of economic theory: that overall consumption (reinforcers obtained) would decrease as the unit price (response requirement per reinforcer) increased and that the cost and benefit components that defined unit price would not influence overall consumption considerably when unit price values were equal. We tested these predictions by arranging unit price such that the denominator was one (e.g., two responses produced one reinforcer) or two (e.g., four responses produced two reinforcers). Results showed that consumption decreased as unit price increased and that unit price values with different components produced similar consumption.


    Albin O. Kuhn Library & Gallery
    University of Maryland, Baltimore County
    1000 Hilltop Circle
    Baltimore, MD 21250
    www.umbc.edu/scholarworks

    Contact information:
    Email: scholarworks-group@umbc.edu
    Phone: 410-455-3021


    If you wish to submit a copyright complaint or withdrawal request, please email mdsoar-help@umd.edu.

     

     

    My Account

    LoginRegister

    Browse

    This CollectionBy Issue DateTitlesAuthorsSubjectsType

    Statistics

    View Usage Statistics


    Albin O. Kuhn Library & Gallery
    University of Maryland, Baltimore County
    1000 Hilltop Circle
    Baltimore, MD 21250
    www.umbc.edu/scholarworks

    Contact information:
    Email: scholarworks-group@umbc.edu
    Phone: 410-455-3021


    If you wish to submit a copyright complaint or withdrawal request, please email mdsoar-help@umd.edu.