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The Role Of Vicarious Reinforcement For Modeled Or Alternate Behavior, Brian C. Lech
The Role Of Vicarious Reinforcement For Modeled Or Alternate Behavior, Brian C. Lech
All Graduate Theses and Dissertations, Spring 1920 to Summer 2023
Research on vicarious reinforcement has answered many questions but whether vicarious reinforcement increases the likelihood that an observer will imitate a model, a social learning theory would predict, or sets the occasion for the observer to perform an alternate response, as a discriminative stimulus interpretation of vicarious reinforcement suggests, seems to depend on (1) the setting, (2) procedure, and (3) reinforcers used. In an effort to better understand the function of vicarious reinforcement, while controlling for subjects; histories and using tangible reinforcers, 47 preschool children participated in two experiments that (1) provided an experimental history of responding on several levers, …