Thank you for your efforts in making this video. However, it is kind of misleading. Matching law only pertains to variable interval schedules. "The matching law was first formulated by R.J. Herrnstein (1961) following an experiment with pigeons on concurrent variable interval schedules."
Thank you so much and it is really helpful! I have a question , ”With a ration schedule of reinforcement, behavior tends to follow the richer schedule” (Cooper et al 2007 p. 318), while you gave an example that under FR 5 vs FR 25, the behaviors would be 5:1. So I am confused here.
Hi Liam - the schedules would mean that only 5 responses are required to earn the reinforcer under the FR-5 schedule, but a total of 25 responses are required to earn the reinforcer under the FR-25 schedule. So the differential ratio between the schedules is 1:5, with 5 times as much behavior necessary under the FR-25 schedule. As a result, we should expect that we're going to see quite a lot MORE responding to the richer schedule (FR-5) than the leaner schedule (FR-25). If the behavior follows Herrnstein's matching law, we should actually see a perfect 1:5 ratio, but learning history and a variety of other variables can produce subtle impacts on matching. More information can be found in Reed & Kaplan's The Matching Law: A Tutorial for Practitioners (2011), linked at www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3357095/ (Does this help clarify?)
Matching law felt so abstract and a confusing before i saw this. You helped me get a good picture of it! Thank you so much!
Hey, this really helped! Thank you! The way you explain and express.. real good!
Thank you for your efforts in making this video. However, it is kind of misleading. Matching law only pertains to variable interval schedules. "The matching law was first formulated by R.J. Herrnstein (1961) following an experiment with pigeons on concurrent variable interval schedules."
Thank you, that's very helpful. very well explained
Thank you so much and it is really helpful! I have a question , ”With a ration schedule of reinforcement, behavior tends to follow the richer schedule” (Cooper et al 2007 p. 318), while you gave an example that under FR 5 vs FR 25, the behaviors would be 5:1. So I am confused here.
Hi Liam - the schedules would mean that only 5 responses are required to earn the reinforcer under the FR-5 schedule, but a total of 25 responses are required to earn the reinforcer under the FR-25 schedule. So the differential ratio between the schedules is 1:5, with 5 times as much behavior necessary under the FR-25 schedule. As a result, we should expect that we're going to see quite a lot MORE responding to the richer schedule (FR-5) than the leaner schedule (FR-25). If the behavior follows Herrnstein's matching law, we should actually see a perfect 1:5 ratio, but learning history and a variety of other variables can produce subtle impacts on matching.
More information can be found in Reed & Kaplan's The Matching Law: A Tutorial for Practitioners (2011), linked at www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3357095/
(Does this help clarify?)
@@veronicahoward4106or you have to make the one that requires 5x the work worth it very much better or more value so the work is worth it …