CHOICE IN A “SELF‐CONTROL” PARADIGM: EFFECTS OF A FADING PROCEDURE
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Pigeons chose between an immediate 2‐second reinforcer (access to grain) and a 6‐second reinforcer delayed 6 seconds. The four pigeons in the control group were exposed to this condition initially. The four experimental subjects first received a condition where both reinforcers were delayed 6 seconds. The small reinforcer delay was then gradually reduced to zero over more than 11,000 trials. Control subjects almost never chose the large delayed reinforcer. Experimental subjects chose the large delayed reinforcer significantly more often. Two experimental subjects showed preference for the large reinforcer even when the consequences for pecking the two keys were switched. The results indicate that fading procedures can lead to increased “self‐control” in pigeons in a choice between a large delayed reinforcer and a small immediate reinforcer.
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In Mazur and Logue's delay-fading procedure, pigeons continued to prefer the larger-later reward far more than a control group after the delay to the smaller reward was faded out.
“Eventually the delay to the SSR was completely faded out (i.e., 0-s to food) and these pigeons continued to prefer the LLR far more than a control group not given this delay-fading training.”
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- Authors
- Mazur, J. E., & Logue, A. W.
- Affiliations
- Harvard University (US)
- ORCID
- Logue, A. W.
- Venue
- Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior
- Publisher
- Wiley
- Published
- 1978-07
- Volume
- 30
- Issue
- 1
- Pages
- 11-17
- ISSN
- 0022-5002 (ISSN-L)
- 1938-3711
- PMC
- PMC1332727
- OpenAlex
- W2021621394
- Cited by
- 364
- References
- 18
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- FWCI
- 9.00
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- bronze
- doi.org
- Locations
- Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior (publishedVersion)
- PubMed Central (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Decision Sciences › General Decision Sciences › Decision-Making and Behavioral Economics
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Developmental and Educational Psychology › Behavioral and Psychological Studies
- Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies
- Keywords
- self-control, choice behavior, reinforcer delay, fading procedure, delay discounting, pigeons, reinforcement magnitude
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