Measurement of motivation and incentive

VARIATION IN HERRNSTEIN'S ro AS A FUNCTION OF ALTERNATIVE REINFORCEMENT RATE

“…However, many of these published accounts report the percentage by using data averaged across subjects. Recently, Warren-Boulton, Silberberg, Gray, and Ollom (1985) (Anderson, 1978 (Baum, 1981;Staddon, 1979). Although the present data do not allow evaluation of those alternative models, they do suggest that models predicting a decrease in response rate at high reinforcement rate deserve attention.…”

“…For the remaining animals, the equation accounts for 76.39% of the variance, which presents a somewhat better picture. The proper criterion for evaluating percentage of variance accounted for, of course, is unknown (Anderson, 1978). Intuitively, a good two-parameter equation should handle almost all variance, which Herrnstein's equation does not do, at least for the present data (see also McSweeney et al, 1983;Warren-Boulton et.…”

Evaluating forgetting curves psychologically.

“…(In repeated measurement designs, valid tests of the residual are conducted by testing the remaining orthogonal components of the interaction [Anderson, 1976]. ) Thus there should exist a monotone transformation of the R scores which produces this concentration (see Anderson, 1978; Bogartz & Wackwitz, 1971; de Leeuw, Young & Takane, 1976; Kruskal, 1965; Weiss, 1973). The spacing for the Linear × Linear orthogonal polynomial coefficients will not be equal as in the standard orthogonal polynomial coefficient tables.…”

“…The function m represents the transformation of the unobserved underlying response r to the observed value of the behavioral measure, R . One of the guiding principles of functional measurement that has led to great success in the study of information integration (Anderson, 1974, 1978, 1980, 1981, 1982) is the emphasis upon trying to find simple combination rules and, when necessary, letting the psychophysical functions and the output function soak up as much as possible of the residual complexity. This principle is used in the present effort.…”

SIMILE: A FORTRAN program package for stimulus-integration models

“…This theory and its associated procedure of functional measurement have been applied in an increasing number of areas over the last 10 years through the work of Anderson and his colleagues (e.g., Anderson, 1962Anderson, , 1974Anderson, , 1978Birnbaum, 1974;Levin, 1975;Norman, 1976b;Shanteau, 1975). As more researchers apply and extend the application of information-integration theory in different areas, generalized parameter-estimation programs become increasingly useful and in demand.…”