The possibility of using the topic of reinforcement
schedules to integrate data from
several areas to make contact with the discrimination
literature via multiple schedules or
conditioned reinforcement via chained schedules
was not exploited. The decision to include
FR schedules within the discussion of
differentiation and shaping did not take advantage
of the possibility for integration either.
Instead we find the comment ". . . the
FR specification provides an alternative
method to a schedule to produce perseverance"
(p. 173; italics ours). Is this not moving
in the wrong direction, to fractionate the
schedule material rather than to integrate in
the way suggested?