J Exp Anal Behav. 1973 May;19(3):517-26. doi: 10.1901/jeab.1973.19-517.
The reinforcers produced by one response reduce the rate of other, concurrently reinforced responses. An analysis of the logical and empirical implications of the relation indicates that one reinforcer must have this effect on responses maintained by other reinforcers even when all reinforcers are produced by the same class of responses. A quantitative expression of the relation leads to a formulation, mathematically equivalent to Herrnstein's (1970), in which the rate of a reinforced response is a joint function of (1) an excitatory effect of the reinforcers produced by that class of responses, and (2) an inhibitory effect of the total reinforcers produced both by that class and by other classes of responses.
一种反应产生的增强物会降低其他同时被增强反应的速率。对这种关系的逻辑和经验含义的分析表明,即使所有的增强物都是由同一类反应产生的,一种增强物也必须对由其他增强物维持的反应产生这种效果。这种关系的定量表达导致了一种表述,在数学上等同于 Herrnstein(1970)的表述,其中被增强反应的速率是由(1)由该类反应产生的增强物的兴奋效应,和(2)由该类反应和其他类反应产生的总增强物的抑制效应的联合函数。