Wetherington C L
J Exp Anal Behav. 1979 Nov;32(3):323-33. doi: 10.1901/jeab.1979.32-323.
Schedule-induced drinking was measured in four rats exposed to fixed-time schedules of food ranging from 30 to 480 seconds. Herrnstein's (1970, 1974) equation relating rate of a single response as a hyperbolic function of reinforcement rate provided a good fit to three measures of drinking: lick rate, ingestion rate, and relative time spent drinking. The functions relating the three measures of drinking to reinforcement rate were of similar form. Herrnstein's equation also provided a good description of some already published data on schedule-induced drinking. The fit both to the present data and to the already published data was improved somewhat by computing the measures by subtracting from the time base a latency constant representing the minimal time required to consume the food pellet and travel to the water source. The data from this study provide two correspondences between operant behavior and schedule-induced behavior: (a) conformity to Herrnstein's equation and (b) equivalence of rate and relative time measures.
在四只大鼠中测量了由定时食物供应时间表诱发的饮水行为，食物供应时间从30秒到480秒不等。赫尔恩斯坦（1970年，1974年）提出的将单一反应速率作为强化速率的双曲线函数的方程，很好地拟合了三种饮水测量指标：舔舐速率、摄取速率和饮水相对时间。将这三种饮水测量指标与强化速率相关的函数具有相似的形式。赫尔恩斯坦方程也很好地描述了一些已发表的关于定时诱发饮水的数据。通过从时间基准中减去一个代表消耗食丸和前往水源所需最短时间的潜伏期常数来计算测量指标，使得对当前数据和已发表数据的拟合都有所改善。本研究的数据提供了操作性行为和定时诱发行为之间的两个对应关系：（a）符合赫尔恩斯坦方程；（b）速率和相对时间测量指标的等效性。
