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Development and Disruption of Collateral Behavior and DRL Performances: A PORTL Exploration

One schedule of reinforcement that is used to decrease the rate of a target behavior is differential reinforcement of low rates (DRL). During this schedule, reinforcement is delivered for a target response if it occurs after a certain amount of time has passed since the last instance of this target response. The current study used a table-top game called PORTL and college student participants to investigate how collateral patterns develop and are disrupted during DRL schedules. After the participant developed a collateral pattern of behaviors with the objects, the researcher removed one of the objects that was part of the pattern and waited for a new pattern of behaviors to develop. Once the participant developed a new collateral pattern, the researcher removed a second object. This continued until there was only one object present. Results showed that the rate of reinforcement decreased following the removal of each object, then slowly increased as a new pattern developed.

Identiferoai:union.ndltd.org:unt.edu/info:ark/67531/metadc1752335
Date12 1900
CreatorsHerzog, Leah
ContributorsRosales-Ruiz, Jess, Becker, April, Dracobly, Joe
PublisherUniversity of North Texas
Source SetsUniversity of North Texas
LanguageEnglish
Detected LanguageEnglish
TypeThesis or Dissertation
Formatvi, 46 pages, Text
RightsPublic, Herzog, Leah, Copyright, Copyright is held by the author, unless otherwise noted. All rights Reserved.

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