EFFECTS OF HISTORICAL AND SOCIAL VARIABLES ON INSTRUCTION FOLLOWING.
The present study investigated the effect of the presence of the experimenter on behavioral sensitivity to contingency change. In history training, college students were exposed to differential reinforcement of low rate (DRL) and fixed-ratio (FR) schedules, and in testing, to a fixed-interval (FI) s...
| Published in: | Psychological Record Vol. 62; no. 4; pp. 691 - 706 |
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Fall2012
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