The Matching Law

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Originally published in 1988, the purpose of this title was to present a coherent summary of the previous 30 years' of research on the way in which animals and humans distribute their behaviour between alternative sources of reinforcement.

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Preface. Acknowledgments. 1. Historical Antecedents 2. The Strict Matching Law 3. Herrnstein's Equations, Multiple Schedules, and Empirical Research 4. Generalized Matching 5. Quantitative Methods 6. Concurrent-Schedule Research I: Reinforcer Parameters 7. Concurrent-Schedule Research II: Schedule Types 8. Concurrent-Schedule Research III: Miscellany 9. Multiple-Schedule Research 10. Concurrent-Chain Performance 11.Matching Models of Signal Detection 12.For the Future. References. Author Index. Subject Index