Effects of Punishment in an Alternative Response Context as a Function of Relative Reinforcement Rate

1973 ◽  
Vol 23 (1) ◽  
pp. 65-74 ◽  
Author(s):  
Roger C. Katz
Keyword(s):  
Reinforcement Rate ◽  
Alternative Response ◽  
Relative Reinforcement

Tracking Relative Reinforcement Rate Reversals

1992 ◽  
Author(s):  
Leon R. Dreyfus ◽  
Daniel Kolker ◽  
D. Alan Stubbs
Keyword(s):  
Reinforcement Rate ◽  
Relative Reinforcement

scholarly journals EXAMINATION OF RELATIVE REINFORCEMENT EFFECTS OF STIMULI IDENTIFIED THROUGH PRETREATMENT AND DAILY BRIEF PREFERENCE ASSESSMENTS

2001 ◽  
Vol 34 (4) ◽  
pp. 463-473 ◽  
Author(s):  
Iser G. DeLeon ◽  
Wayne W. Fisher ◽  
Vanessa Rodriguez-Catter ◽  
Kristen Maglieri ◽  
Kelly Herman ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Preference Assessments ◽  
Relative Reinforcement

scholarly journals Dissociating Representations of Time and Number in Reinforcement-Rate Learning by Deletion of the GluA1 AMPA Receptor Subunit in Mice

2021 ◽  
Vol 32 (2) ◽  
pp. 204-217
Author(s):  
Joseph M. Austen ◽  
Corran Pickering ◽  
Rolf Sprengel ◽  
David J. Sanderson
Keyword(s):  
Associative Strength ◽  
Ampa Receptor ◽  
Reinforcement Rate ◽  
Statistical Properties ◽  
Temporal Information ◽  
Receptor Subunit ◽  
Male And Female ◽  
Female Mice ◽  
Ampa Receptor Subunit ◽  
Numeric Information

Theories of learning differ in whether they assume that learning reflects the strength of an association between memories or symbolic encoding of the statistical properties of events. We provide novel evidence for symbolic encoding of informational variables by demonstrating that sensitivity to time and number in learning is dissociable. Whereas responding in normal mice was dependent on reinforcement rate, responding in mice that lacked the GluA1 AMPA receptor subunit was insensitive to reinforcement rate and, instead, dependent on the number of times a cue had been paired with reinforcement. This suggests that GluA1 is necessary for weighting numeric information by temporal information in order to calculate reinforcement rate. Sample sizes per genotype varied between seven and 23 across six experiments and consisted of both male and female mice. The results provide evidence for explicit encoding of variables by animals rather than implicit encoding via variations in associative strength.

Post-work society as an oxymoron: Why we cannot, and should not, wish work away

2021 ◽  
pp. 136843102110121
Author(s):  
Jean-Philippe Deranty
Keyword(s):  
Social Organisation ◽  
Alternative Response ◽  
The World ◽  
Work And Employment

In recent years, theorists have contended that we should move to a mode of social organisation where work and the values attached to it are no longer central, a ‘post-work society’. For these theorists, the modern ideology of work is intrinsically unjust, even irrational and no longer suited to the challenges of our time. The article presents an alternative response to the problems of work and employment. Rather than moving to a ‘post-work’ society, the article argues that we should transform the world of work, precisely by keeping in view why working is important to individuals and the community. In fact, it is not realistic to believe that human societies could ever do without work. Because human societies are by necessity work societies, and work, if organised correctly, entails many goods, we cannot really, and we should not, wish work away.

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