What are the variables/factors affecting the performance of schedule of reinforcement in operant conditioning?
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The schedules themselves will effect performance. You hopefully know the various patterns of responding that the various schedules produce.
Another factor is the reinforcer itself. Three important features of any reinforcer are its quality, its rate of presentation and its delay. An experiment by Shade and Miller in 994 showed this in an experiment which involved getting emotionally disturbed teenagers to do math problems.
Quality was manipulated by being money or points which could be exchanged for items. Rate of reinforcement was manipulated by being on differing VI schedules. Delay was manipulated by giving the reinforcer immediately or a day later.
As you can imagine, the teenagers spent more time doing math problems when 1) quality was high (money), 2) rate of reinforcement was faster and 3) when the reinforcer was presented immediately.
The amount of reinforcement is also a factor. An animal will respond more when given a large amount of food instead of a small amount. With this, motivation to perform the behaviour will effect responding, an animal given a large amount of food will have less motivation to respond again than an animal that has been given a small amount.
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You should have a text that explains all of that in detail...I believe that you have to do the same things in the same order to reinforce the behavior that you are trying to teach. Variables would be if you rang the bell before you feed the dog for 7 days and on the 8th day you put out the food and then ring the bell...I think...
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