Inducción de conducta de fumar mediante presentación intermitente de reforzadores

Abstract

Available data on adjunctive behavior are briefly reviewed, stressing some important functional and descriptive features and their application to the analysis of some human behavioral problems. The experimental study being described focused on me induction of smoking behavior through the intermittent presentation of monetary reinforcers. Different inter-reinforcement intervals were used, and a massive reinforcement schedule was used as control condition under a within-subject experimental design. Data suggest that temporal allocation of this behavior is concentrated after the reinforcer, with a bitonic distribution of "aspirations" rate in regard to the length of the inter-reinforcement interval when the data of all subjecta are added in. During me control condition smoking behavior did not exceed that taking place during the experimental conditions. The possibility of a deficiently designed control condition is examined.