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. 2001 Fall;24(2):173–180. doi: 10.1007/BF03392028

The premack principle, response deprivation, and establishing operations

Kevin P Klatt, Edward K Morris
PMCID: PMC2731497  PMID: 22478362

Abstract

This paper describes response deprivation as an establishing operation. In this context, we review the concept of establishing operation, in particular, its reinforcer-establishing and evocative effects; we place response deprivation in the literature on the reinforcing effects of behavioral activity, wherein response deprivation subsumes the Premack principle; we describe the reinforcer-altering and evocative effects of response deprivation; and we address a methodological concern about the evocative effect. In closing, we discuss some conceptual and empirical implications of the foregoing analyses.

Keywords: response deprivation, establishing operations, the Premack principle

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