title: The premack principle, response deprivation, and establishing operations.
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.
authors.forename: K P
authors.initials: KP
authors.lastname: Klatt
authors.forename: E K
authors.initials: EK
authors.lastname: Morris