Self-inhibiting effects of reinforcement
| dc.contributor.author | Catania, A. Charles | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2024-08-27T20:38:25Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2024-08-27T20:38:25Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 1973-05 | |
| dc.description.abstract | The reinforcers produced by one response reduce the rate of other, concurrently reinforced responses. An analysis of the logical and empirical implications of the relation indicates that one reinforcer must have this effect on responses maintained by other reinforcers even when all reinforcers are produced by the same class of responses. A quantitative expression of the relation leads to a formulation, mathematically equivalent to Herrnstein's (1970), in which the rate of a reinforced response is a joint function of (1) an excitatory effect of the reinforcers produced by that class of responses, and (2) an inhibitory effect of the total reinforcers produced both by that class and by other classes of responses. | |
| dc.description.sponsorship | Research supported by NIH Grant MH-18506. Reprints may be obtained from the author at the Department of Psychology, University College of Arts and Science, New York University, New York, N. Y. 10453. | |
| dc.description.uri | https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/16811682/ | |
| dc.format.extent | 10 pages | |
| dc.genre | journal articles | |
| dc.identifier | doi:10.13016/m2rrkc-dzqq | |
| dc.identifier.citation | Catania, A. Charles. “Self-Inhibiting Effects of Reinforcement.” Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior 19, no. 3 (May 1973): 517–26. https://doi.org/10.1901/jeab.1973.19-517. | |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://doi.org/10.1901/jeab.1973.19-517 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/11603/35859 | |
| dc.language.iso | en_US | |
| dc.publisher | Wiley | |
| dc.relation.isAvailableAt | The University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC) | |
| dc.relation.ispartof | UMBC Faculty Collection | |
| dc.relation.ispartof | UMBC Psychology Department | |
| dc.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. | |
| dc.subject | reinforcement | |
| dc.subject | excitatory effect | |
| dc.subject | responses | |
| dc.title | Self-inhibiting effects of reinforcement | |
| dc.type | Text | |
| dcterms.creator | https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0507-8707 |