J Exp Anal Behav. 1992 May;57(3):317-37. doi: 10.1901/jeab.1992.57-317.
Three experiments using multiple schedules of reinforcement explored the implications of resistance-to-change findings for the response-reinforcer relation described by the law of effect, using both steady-state responding and responding recorded in the first few sessions of conditions. In Experiment 1, when response-independent reinforcement was increased during a third component, response rate in Components 1 and 2 decreased. This response-rate reduction was proportionately greater in a component in which reinforcer magnitude was small (2-s access to wheat) than in the component in which it was large (6-s access to wheat). However, when reinforcer rates in the two components were varied together in Experiments 2 and 3, response-rate change was the same regardless of the magnitude of reinforcers used in the two components, so that sensitivity of response rates to reinforcer rates (Experiment 2) and of response-rate ratios to reinforcer-rate ratios (Experiment 3) was unaffected by the magnitude of the reinforcers. Therefore, the principles determining resistance to change, described by behavioral momentum theory, seem not to apply when the source of behavior change is the variation of reinforcement contingencies that maintain the behavior. The use of extinction as a manipulation to study resistance to change is questioned.
三项使用多种强化程序的实验，使用稳态反应和条件下最初几轮记录的反应来探索对由效果律描述的反应-强化关系的变化抗性发现的含义。在实验 1 中，当在第三个成分中增加与反应无关的强化时，成分 1 和 2 中的反应率下降。在强化量较小的成分（2 秒获得小麦）中，这种反应率降低的比例大于强化量较大的成分（6 秒获得小麦）。然而，当在实验 2 和 3 中同时改变两个成分中的强化率时，无论两个成分中使用的强化量如何，反应率的变化都是相同的，因此，对强化率的反应率敏感性（实验 2）和对强化率比的反应率比（实验 3）不受强化量的影响。因此，由行为动力理论描述的决定变化抗性的原则，似乎不适用于导致行为变化的原因是维持行为的强化条件的变化。使用消光作为研究变化抗性的操作受到质疑。
