Examination of delay discounting with and without contingency descriptions
Document Type
Thesis
College
College of Arts and Sciences
Department
Psychology
Degree
M.S. Applied Behavior Analysis
Date Completed
2022
First Committee Member
Bourret, Jason
Second Committee Member
Thompson, Rachel
Third Committee Member
Pinkston, Jonathan
Abstract
"The existing literature has defined delay discounting as decrease in the value of a commodity as the delay to that commodity increases (Ainslie, 1975; Mazur, 1987). Some research has evaluated differences between hypothetical and real rewards with human participants (Johnson & Bickel, 2002; Lagorio & Madden, 2005); however, all studies to date provide some verbal or visual descriptions of the choice contingencies to human participants. The purpose of this study was to evaluate the behavioral processes in delay discounting assays through the examination of the effects of experimenter-delivered questions alone, contingencies alone, and both in conjunction. The results across both experiments in this study indicate that there were differences in the levels of discounting across conditions that do or do not include contingency descriptions."
Recommended Citation
Bakalar, Taylor N., "Examination of delay discounting with and without contingency descriptions" (2022). Master’s Theses - College of Arts and Sciences. 11.
https://digitalcommons.law.wne.edu/castheses/11
