The Behavioral Economics of Choice and Interval Timing

Autor/inn/en	Jozefowiez, J.; Staddon, J. E. R.; Cerutti, D. T.
Titel	The Behavioral Economics of Choice and Interval Timing
Quelle	In: Psychological Review, 116 (2009) 3, S.519-539 (21 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0033-295X
DOI	10.1037/a0016171
Schlagwörter	Intervals; Metacognition; Reinforcement; Time; Conceptual Tempo; Animals; Cognitive Processes; Brain; Behavioral Science Research; Interaction; Probability; Responses; Simulation; Models; Psychometrics; Theories + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Meta cognitive ability; Meta-cognition; Metakognitive Fähigkeit; Metakognition; Positive Verstärkung; Zeit; Animal; Tier; Tiere; Cognitive process; Kognitiver Prozess; Gehirn; Interaktion; Wahrscheinlichkeitsrechnung; Wahrscheinlichkeitstheorie; Simulation program; Simulationsprogramm; Analogiemodell; Psychometry; Psychometrie; Theory; Theorie
Abstract	The authors propose a simple behavioral economic model (BEM) describing how reinforcement and interval timing interact. The model assumes a Weber-law-compliant logarithmic representation of time. Associated with each represented time value are the payoffs that have been obtained for each possible response. At a given real time, the response with the highest payoff is emitted. The model accounts for a wide range of data from procedures such as simple bisection, metacognition in animals, economic effects in free-operant psychophysical procedures, and paradoxical choice in double-bisection procedures. Although it assumes logarithmic time representation, it can also account for data from the time-left procedure usually cited in support of linear time representation. It encounters some difficulties in complex free-operant choice procedures, such as concurrent mixed fixed-interval schedules as well as some of the data on double bisection, which may involve additional processes. Overall, BEM provides a theoretical framework for understanding how reinforcement and interval timing work together to determine choice between temporally differentiated reinforcers. (Contains 2 tables and 27 figures.) (As Provided).
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Update	2017/4/10