Abstract
The effects of inaccurate instructions on the differential-reinforcement-of-low-rate (DRL) performance of human subjects were investigated. The inaccurate instructions were divided into two types, i.e., the instruction which leads subjects to contact aversive consequence and the instruction which leads them to contact no clear aversive consequence. In this study, those two types of instructions were presented within a session on three-component multiple DRL schedules. Results indicated that the instruction resulting in aversive consequence caused subjects to respond according to schedule contingencies more quickly than the instruction resulting in no aversive consequence. The usefulness of the inaccurate instruction resulting in aversive consequence to eliminate the instruction-following behavior was emphasized.
