Conditioning History and the Imitation of Reinforced and Nonreinforced Behaviors
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 10122834 |
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| Authors | Paul M Smeets (University of Kansas, corresponding author), Sebastian Striefel (University of Kansas), David L Gast (University of Kansas) |
| Year | 1974 |
| Volume | 90 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 257-270 |
| Publication date | 1974-04-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The Journal of General Psychology (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0022-1309 • E-ISSN: 1940-0888 |
| Publisher | Taylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/00221309.1974.9920765 |
| OpenAlex | W2171891734 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 15 |
Present research explored the effect of conditioning history on the performance of imitative behaviors when a choice was given between a reinforced and a nonreinforced behavior or between two reinforced behaviors. The conditioning history consisted of exposure to a repeatedly demonstrated reinforced behavior (SDc). During subsequent choice presentations the SDc behavior was paired with a reinforced (SDa) or nonreinforced (S-delta) alternative behavior. A multiple baseline design was utilized to control for the effect of the length of conditioning history. Six institutionalized retarded children served as subjects. The results indicated that the two subjects with no conditioning history imitated the S-delta behaviors as often as the SDa behaviors and consistently more often than the SDc behaviors. In contrast, three of the four subjects who had the conditioning history imitated the SDc behaviors more often than both other behaviors and eventually stopped imitating the S-delta behavior. The fourth subject with a conditioning history did not show this response pattern, but showed a preference for imitating the last of two modeled behaviors. No systematic differences in imitative performance were observed between the two pairs of subjects with a conditioning history as a function of the length of conditioning history. The results suggest that the conditioning history may be largely responsible for the differential imitative performance of reinforced and nonreinforced behaviors
Audiology · Classical conditioning · Conditioning · Developmental psychology · Imitation · Operant conditioning · Preference · Reinforcement · Statistics · Autism Spectrum Disorder Research · Behavioral and Psychological Studies · Child and Animal Learning Development · Mathematics · Medicine · Psychology · Social Psychology
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