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Economic concepts for the analysis of behavior.

Abstract

A review of the relationship between schedule of reinforcement, response rate, and choice suggests that certain unifying concepts from economics can contribute to a more complete science of behavior. Four points are made: 1) a behavioral experiment is an economic system and its characteristics-open or closed-can strongly determine the results; 2) reinforcers can be distinguished by a functional property called elasticity; 3) reinforcers may interact as complements as well as substitutes; 4) no simple choice rule, such as strict matching, can account for all choice behavior.

Year: 1980 PMID： 16812188 PMCID： PMC1332999 DOI： 10.1901/jeab.1980.34-219

Source DB: PubMed Journal: J Exp Anal Behav ISSN： 0022-5002 Impact factor: 2.468

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Economic concepts for the analysis of behavior.

Review 1. Severe food deprivation: some thoughts regarding its exclusive use.

2. The matching law in and within groups of rats.

3. Demand for food on fixed-ratio schedules as a function of the quality of concurrently available reinforcement.

4. Undermatching: a reappraisal of performance on concurrent variable-interval schedules of reinforcement.

5. Performance in concurrent interval schedules: a systematic replication.

6. The economics of daily consumption controlling food- and water-reinforced responding.

7. Reinforcement and substitution in humans: a multiple-response analysis.

8. Ethanol as a reinforcer: effects of fixed-ratio size and food deprivation.

9. The ecological determinants of reinforcement in the rat.

10. A quantitative analysis of the responding maintained by interval schedules of reinforcement.

1. Behavioral economics and within-session changes in responding.

2. Three predictions of the economic concept of unit price in a choice context.

3. Stock optimizing in choice when a token deposit is the operant.

4. Unit price and choice in a token-reinforcement context.

5. Comparing demand functions when different price manipulations are used: does unit price help?

6. The magnitude-of-reinforcement function in closed and open economies.

7. Behavior analysis and farm animal welfare.

8. Does package size matter? A unit-price analysis of "demand" for food in baboons.

9. The economics of the law of effect.

10. Demand curves for hypothetical cocaine in cocaine-dependent individuals.