Sentence examples for contingency task from inspiring English sources
Furthermore, in a reverse-reward contingency task [9] [11], where chimpanzees failed to select a smaller food array in order to receive a larger one, the use of Arabic numerals (instead of food) allowed chimpanzees to overcome their strong motivation to choose the largest between the two food arrays and to be successful.
For instance, Shumaker et al. (2002) found that two orangutans solved a reversed contingency task that chimpanzees had systematically failed (Boysen and Berntson 1995; Boysen et al. 1996).
Moreover, Vlamings et al. (2006) (see also Uher and Call 2008) tested all the great apes in a reverse contingency task and found no evidence of the putative differences between chimpanzees and orangutans.
The program was designed to train elementary school teachers in the application of eight behavioral techniques (i.e., stimuli control, cost of response, reinforcing alternative responses, self-control of anger, group contingencies, task analysis, monitoring, and shaping).
We examined trial spacing during extinction following a human contingency learning task.
Therefore, the current study aimed to examine performance in a deterministic contingency learning task, investigating discrimination, reversal, and extinction learning.
Thirty-three alcohol-dependent pADsents (ADs), 28 pathological gamblers (PGs), and 18 healthy controls (HCs) performed a contingency learning task in which they learned stimulus reward associations that were first reversed and later extinguished while receiving deterministic feedback throughout.
Open image in new window Fig. 5 Time variances of contingency computing tasks.
To examine the impact of external contingencies on task performance and the neural substrates of intrinsic motivation, we assigned half of the participants to a "reward" condition in which they were instructed that they could receive a monetary bonus based on their final task performance.
What are the contingencies and tasks that require that America's armed forces be as large as they are?
The other contingency is organizational task.
