Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior

A JOURNAL primarily for the original publication of experiments relevant to the behavior
of individual organisms. Review articles and theoretical papers will occasionally be
invited.

BOARD OF EDITORS
C. B. FERSTER, Indiana University Medical Center, EXECUTIVE EDITOR; D. G. ANGER,
Upjohn Co., APPARATUS EDITOR; J. E. ANLIKER, Harvard Medical School; N. H. AZRIN,
Anna State Hospital; D. S. BLOUGH, Brown University; J. J. BOREN, Merck Institute;
J. V. BRADY, Walter Reed Army Institute of Research; P. B. DEWS, Harvard Medical
School; R. J. HERRNSTEIN, Harvard University; F. S. KELLER, Columbia University;
0. R. LINDSLEY, Harvard Medical School, SECRETARY-TREASURER; W. H. MORSE,
Harvard Medical School; W. N. SCHOENFELD, Columbia University; M. SIDMAN, Walter
Reed Army Institute of Research; B. F. SKINNER, Harvard University; T. VERHAVE, Eli
Lilly Co. STAFF: MARILYN FERSTER, Assistant editor; SERENA SCHOENFELD, Production
consultant; SALLY MEDEROS, Assistant to the Secretary-Treasurer.

This Journal is published quarterly by the Society for the Experimental Analysis of
Behavior, Inc. The subscription rate per annual volume is $12.00; for A.P.A. members,
$9.50; for students, $6.50. The price of a single issue is $3.00; orders for less than a full
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reserve inventory permits. Authors will be required to order a minimum of 100 reprints
(charge: $3.00 per Journal page); additional reprints, to a total of 500, may be ordered
at the same rate. Reprints cannot be supplied for papers and technical notes one page
or less in length.
Manuscripts should be submitted to the Executive Editor, C. B. Ferster, Institute of
Psychiatric Research, Indiana University Medical Center, 1100 West Michigan Street,
Indianapolis 7, Indiana. Apparatus notes are submitted directly to the Apparatus
Editor, D. G. Anger, The Upjohn Co., Kalamazoo, Michigan.
Subscriptions, changes of address, and other business correspondence should be ad-
dressed to the Secretary-Treasurer, 0. R. Lindsley, Behavior Research Laboratory,
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made payable to the Journal.

INSTRUCTIONS TO AUTHORS
In preparing manuscripts, contributors will follow the usage concerning references,
figure and table legends, footnotes, abbreviations, etc., outlined in the Publication
Manual of the American Psychological Association, 1957 revision. Manuscripts should
be submitted in duplicate, the author retaining a third copy. Figures are to be supplied
by the author in a form suitable for photographic reproduction: halftone illustrations
as glossy prints, line drawings in black ink on a smooth surface paper.
Copyright 1959 by the Society for the Experimental Analysis of Behavior, Inc. Reproduction for scientific and
scholarly purposes of any material published in the Journal will be permitted following receipt of written request.
 MONITORING LIGHTS FOR PROGRAMMING CIRCUITS
Prompt feedback of operating information is useful when setting up or modifying
a programming circuit and when searching for sources of error. It is especially valu-
able for new operators who are learning to express experimental procedures in
terms of programming components and circuit arrangements. In a laboratory de-
signed to be used for research by graduate students at Indiana University, we are
therefore providing for the routine monitoring of the action of each relay with an
Alden Pan-i-Lite (Alden Products Co., 117 No. Main St., Brockton 64, Mass.).

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Monitoring lights for programming circuits.

These miniature indicator lights take only 0.375 inch of panel space and extend
less than 0.5 inch behind the panel. A force-fit socket-86BMA-mounts in a
single 0.348-inch hole, and the combination lens (jewel) and lamp-86LAS-screws
in from the front. We are using smooth, white, 28-volt lamps-86LAS-P28V-on a
36-volt circuit supplied through an extra set of contacts on the relay, with 100-ohm
resistors in series to reduce current and increase longevity. Faceted as well as
smooth lenses are also available in five colors for 6, 12, 28, 110, and 220 volts. The
prices are competitive with those for larger lamps and lower than those for compa-
rable miniature lamps from other sources.
J. A. DINSMOOR
INDIANA UNIVERSITY

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 COUNTER INFORMA TION
Several new types of magnetic impulse counters should be of interest to experi-
menters. Elmeg counters, probably manufactured in Europe, are rated from 10 to
50 counts per second and come in many combinations of number of digits and reset
features: mechanical reset (single push-button), or fast electrical reset, as well as
nonreset.
Elmeg printing counters and printing timers incorporate count rates of 20 to 25
per second, remote electrical reset, and several can be ganged to print in parallel on
a single strip of paper. The prices of these counters are at least as low as comparable
foreign or domestic counters. The American distributor is Presin Company, 2014
Broadway, Santa Monica, California.
The Veeder-Root Company (Hartford 2, Connecticut) has recently announced
manufacture of a fast (50 counts per second) magnet counter. In addition to its high
count rate, the Model 1591 features push-button or electrical reset.
L. R. GOLLUB
HARVARD UNIVERSITY

EASY-TO-MAKE OUTLET STRIPS

Curtis Strip wiring channel, available in 10-foot sections from the local General
Electric Supply House, has been found ideal for use as a general AC and DC outlet
strip. The channel is made of metal 2.5 inches wide and 1.5 inches deep. End caps
and filter strips, which can be inserted and taken out without tools, can be bought
separately.
I have found it especially convenient to mount a 5-foot section on both sides of a
standard 7-foot relay rock. Each channel is provided with fused 110-volt AC and
28-volt DC outlets as well as an isolation relay mounted in one end cap. The relay
can be used to interrupt current supply to all programming and recording units
plugged into the outlet strip. One of the two strips is usually controlled by a session
timer or reinforcement counter; the other provides permanent power to pro-
gramming units that should not be switched off at the end of an experimental ses-
sion, as, for example, the unit providing the post-session time-out stimulus.
THOM VERHAVE
THE LILLY RESEARCH LABORATORIES

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 SOME TECHNIQUES IN OPERANT CONDITIONING
OF THE GUINEA PIG*
I have found that the guinea pig will maintain stable variable interval responding
for carrot juice reinforcement. Without any deprivation of food or water, the ani-
mals will take between thirty and sixty reinforcements per session, each reinforce-
ment being 0.25 cc of carrot juice available for four seconds. A VI 1 schedule pro-
duces an average rate of thirty-five responses per minute.
The lever is a single contact, normally closed spring switch, described else-
where (1), mounted one inch from the floor. A neon bulb (NE 51H) mounted
above the bar serves a dual purpose. Connecting it in parallel with the switch pre-
vents arcing across the contacts and provides a "feedback stimulus," a bright flash
lasting about 250 msec with each bar press.
REFERENCE
1. Verhave, T. A sensitive lever for operant conditioning experiments. J. exper. anal. Behav., 1958, 1,
220.
*This research was supported by the Public Health Service under NIH Grant B-1891(A).
RICHARD F. GUNDY
HEARING AND COMMUNICATION LABORATORY
INDIANA UNIVERSITY

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 Conference on the Experimental Analysis of Behavior
The 1959 CEAB will be held during the convention of the American Psychological
Association at Cincinnati. The specific time and place will be announced in both the
July issue of the American Psychologist and the next issue of this Journal.
The Conference will have two sessions, centered on the following topics:
Session 1: a) Interaction among concurrent operants.
b) Interaction among components of multiple schedules.
Session 2: c) Topics open.
Researchers wishing to present data are invited to write the program chairman, speci-
fying the nature of the data and the approximate amount of time desired (15 minutes
maximum). Selections will be indicated by the chairman about July 15.
Program committee:
J. J. Boren
W. H. Morse
T. Verhave, Chairman
The Lilly Research Laboratories
731 South Alabama Street
Indianapolis 6, Indiana