RATE, PROBABILITY AND MATCHING: COMMENTS ON "THE IDENTITIES HIDDEN IN THE MATCHING LAWS, AND THEIR USES" BY DAVID THORNE

RATE, PROBABILITY AND MATCHING: COMMENTS ON "THE IDENTITIES HIDDEN IN THE MATCHING LAWS, AND THEIR USES" BY DAVID THORNE

David Thorne's (2010) article, “The Identities Hidden In The Matching Laws, And Their Uses” performs a valuable service in pointing out alternative expressions of matching. However, some identities tend to obscure rather than illuminate empirical relationships. Three such problematic instances...

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Veröffentlicht in:Journal of the experimental analysis of behavior 2010-11, Vol.94 (3), p.365-367
Hauptverfasser: Rachlin, Howard, Locey, Matthew L.
Format: Artikel
Sprache:eng
Schlagworte:
Animals
Birds
Choice Behavior
Comment
Conditioning, Operant
Discrimination Learning
Feedback (Response)
identities in matching
Item Response Theory
matching law
Models, Psychological
Models, Statistical
Probability
Probability Learning
Reinforcement
reinforcement probability
reinforcement rate
Reinforcement Schedule
Response rates
Selection
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Zusammenfassung:David Thorne's (2010) article, “The Identities Hidden In The Matching Laws, And Their Uses” performs a valuable service in pointing out alternative expressions of matching. However, some identities tend to obscure rather than illuminate empirical relationships. Three such problematic instances are discussed: interresponse time as a function of interval and ratio schedule parameters; probability equality as implying rate matching; the apparent simplicity of probabilistic functions, as opposed to response rate functions, of reinforcement rate.
ISSN:0022-5002
1938-3711
DOI:10.1901/JEAB.2010.94-365