SPACED RESPONDING AND CHOICE: A PRELIMINARY ANALYSIS1

John E. R. Staddon

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Pigeons were exposed to reinforcement both for short (2 < IRT < 3 sec) and long (10 < IRT < 11 sec) interresponse times. They developed bimodal interresponse-time distributions, which were decomposable into two independent component distributions under the control of the short and long contingencies respectively. The birds' allocation of responses between these two distributions was determined by a simple power-law relationship between reinforcement ratios, and response ratios derived from the component distributions. Comparison between this situation and concurrent choice situations raises the possibility that the power-law relation between ratios may be a more general law of choice than the matching of relative frequencies (probabilities).

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