Department of Psychology, 236 Audubon Hall, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, Louisiana 70803, USA.
J Appl Behav Anal. 2010 Fall;43(3):503-7. doi: 10.1901/jaba.2010.43-503.
Individuals may prefer contexts with the option to choose between 2 reinforcing stimuli or between 2 tasks relative to contexts in which others select the same events. We evaluated children's preferences for conditions characterized by (a) the opportunity to choose between tasks and (b) the opportunity to choose between putative reinforcers delivered following the completion of a task relative to no-choice and no-reinforcement control conditions. Three of 4 participants preferred the consequence-choice condition; the task-choice condition was no more preferred than the no-choice condition in any case.
个体可能更喜欢有选择两种强化刺激或两种任务的情境，而不是其他人选择相同事件的情境。我们评估了儿童对以下条件的偏好：（a）在任务之间选择的机会，和（b）在完成任务后获得假设强化物的机会，相对于无选择和无强化控制条件。四个参与者中有三个更喜欢结果选择条件；在任何情况下，任务选择条件都不比无选择条件更受欢迎。
