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A comparison of measures of responding under fixed-interval schedules.

Average response rate, post-reinforcement pause, elapsed time to the fourth response, average quarter-life, and running rate were examined to see how they reflected changes in fixed-interval performance. Rats were exposed to a mixed schedule of water presentation comprising fixed-interval schedules of two durations. Changes in responding were produced by varying the duration of the shorter component. The five measures were derived only from the longer schedule component. Post-reinforcement pause, elapsed time to the fourth response in the interval, and quarter-life all showed high, positive inter-correlations (0.78<r<0.99). Running rate and post-reinforcement pause were not as highly correlated. Quarter-life reliably reflected changes in fixed-interval performance but changes in the quarter-life value did not necessarily result from similar changes in fixed-interval response pattern. The two measures that adequately described changes in response patterning were post-reinforcement pause and running rate. These two measures also had the advantage of being simple both computationally and in terms of the instrumentation involved in their recording.