# Reinforcement control of a young child's behavior.

Paul Weisberg of the University of Alabama shows how a sixteen-month-old child is trained to press a lever for snacks under the influence of several schedules of reinforcement: fixed ratio, variable ratio, and differential reinforcement of low rates (DRL). Behavioral adjustments are necessary to meet the DRL requirements after a history of high-rate responding Summary Describes the behavioral adjustments necessary to meet the differential reinforcement of low rates in an experiment for snack reinforcement.

- Kind: Educational
- Year: 1968
- Runtime: 15 min
- By: Weisberg, Paul
- Genres: Education, Industrial and advertising
- Archive: [Internet Archive](https://archive.org/details/reinforcementcontrolofayoungchildsbehavior)
- Licence or status: none stated by the archive
- Who can watch: Kids profiles and older (the archive gives no rating; placed by Invisible Network from its collection and subjects)

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