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HUMAN SELF-CONTROL AND THE DENSITY OF REINFORCEMENT by Flora, Stephen R., Pavlik, William B.

“…Choice responding in adult humans on a discrete‐trial button‐pressing task was examined as a function of amount, delay, and overall density (points per unit…”
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Magnitude and Schedule of Reinforcement in Rats' Resistance to Extinction: Within Subjects by Pavlik, W. B., Collier, Alexis C.

“…Rats given acquisition and extinction training in discrete lever-pressing trials in lieu of the conventional runway were required to complete a fixed ratio of…”
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Some effects of single alternation training of rats in a double runway by Pavlik, W. B, Franchina, J. J, East, D. L, Evans, O. R

“…Gave independent groups of male hooded rats (n = 30) either (a) single alternation (SA) of reward and nonreward in the 1st goal box of a double runway and 100%…”
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EFFECT OF REINFORCEMENT SCHEDULES ON REWARD SHIFTS by MIKULKA, P. J, LEHR, R, PAVLIK, W. B

“…RATS GIVEN 45 RUNS TO EITHER 1- OR 10-PELLET REWARDS UNDER EITHER CONTINUOUS OR PARTIAL-REINFORCEMENT SCHEDULES WERE THEN GIVEN 40 RUNS TO A 1-PELLET REWARD…”
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Within-Subjects Partial Reinforcement Effects and the Loci of N-R Transitions by Collier, Alexis C., Steil, Dennis A., Pavlik, W. B.

“…Four experiments were conducted in a discrete-trial, lever-pressing situation to assess predictions from Sequential Theory that the direction of the outcomes…”
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The effects of age, exposure, preexposure, and noise conditions on variable interval performance by Harrison, D W, Pavlik, W B

“…The present study was designed to investigate the differential effects of environmental factors on performance in young and aged rats. Specifically, within-…”
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Age differences in retention of fixed-interval responding: memory or habitation effects? by Harrison, D W, Pavlik, W B

“…Long-term retention of fixed-interval curvature as an index of recall memory which is relatively free of retrieval cues was examined in younger and older rats…”
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Deprivation level, competing responses, and the PRE by Mikulka, P J, Pavlik, W B

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Analysis of the Partial Reinforcement Extinction Effect in Humans Using Absolute and Relative Comparisons of Schedules by Pittenger, David J., Pavlik, William B.

“…The partial reinforcement extinction effect (PREE) was analyzed in humans using a quasi-multiple schedule of reinforcement with two discrete trial tasks. The…”
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Analysis of the Partial Reinforcement Extinction Effect in Humans as a Function of Sequence of Reinforcement Schedules by Pittenger, David J., Pavlik, William B., Flora, Stephen R., Kontos, Julie

“…The present experiment was conducted to investigate the effects that changes in reinforcement schedule have on the persistence of learned responses. Human…”
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Effects of a masking task on schedule discrimination and extinction in humans by FLORA, S. R, PAVLIK, W. B, PITTENGER, D. J

“…Humans were exposed to a multiple fixed-interval 20-s/variable ratio 15 schedule of lever pressing, with an anagram solution task, the "masking task," either…”
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STRENGTH OF ALTERNATIVE RESPONSES AND SUBSEQUENT CHOICES by PAVLIK, WILLIAM B, LEHR, ROBERT

“…IN 3 EXPERIMENTS, THE NUMBER OF REINFORCED AND/OR NONREINFORCED RUNS TO THE 2 ARMS OF A T MAZE WERE MANIPULATED BY MEANS OF FORCING PROCEDURES. CHOICE BEHAVIOR…”
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The effects of task complexity and time pressure upon team productivity by Pepinsky, Pauline N, Pepinsky, Harold B, Pavlik, William B

“…Using 72 college students as Ss, team productivity was studied under a contract with the Office of Naval Research. 24 3-man teams performed assembly tasks…”
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Percentage of reinforcement and reward magnitude effects in a T maze: Between and within subjects by Spear, Norman E, Pavlik, William B

“…Rats were given 1 trial/day in a T maze where the alternatives were associated with differential reward magnitude (Wg) and/or percentage reinforcement (%)…”
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A reversed partial-reinforcement effect by Pavlik, William B, Carlton, Peter L

“…The effects of partial- and continuous-reinforcement schedules were compared on both a between- and a within-Ss basis. Rats given either partial or continuous…”
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THE EFFECTS OF SUBJECT-AND EXPERIMENTER-INDUCED DEFENSIVE RESPONSE SETS ON PICTURE-FRUSTRATION TEST REACTIONS by SCHWARTZ, M M, COHEN, B D, PAVLIK, W B

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Running speed as a function of deprivation period and reward magnitude by Reynolds, William F, Pavlik, William B

“…In a factorial design involving 3 levels of magnitude of food reward and 3 levels of length of food deprivation, 9 groups of rats were run for 72 trials in a…”
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A REVERSED PRE by PAVLIK, WILLIAM B, CARLTON, PETER L, LEHR, ROBERT

“…RATS WERE TRAINED IN A FREE OPERANT SITUATION IN WHICH 1 STIMULUS WAS ASSOCIATED WITH CONTINUOUS REINFORCEMENT (CRF) AND A 2ND STIMULUS WITH VARIABLE RATIO…”
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Partial-reinforcement extinction effect as a function of size of goal box by Kirkpatrick, Dwight R, Pavlik, William B, Reynolds, William F

“…To study the effects of goal-box size on the magnitude of the partial-reinforcement extinction effect, 32 rats were given runway training and extinction in 4…”
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Effects of partial reinforcement in one or both goal boxes of a double alleyway by Sgro, Joseph A, Pavlik, William B, Showalter, John R, Cohn, Neil H

“…Gave 48 male albino rats 64 trials in a double alleyway with either 50 or 100% reinforcement in the 1st goal box and 50 or 100% reinforcement in the 2nd goal…”
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