Stimuli, reinforcers, and behavior: An integration

Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior

Volumn 71, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 439-482

  Davison, Michael ^a   Nevin, John A ^b   Nevin, Tony ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND   (New Zealand)

^b RR2 Box 162 ^*

Author keywords

Conditional discrimination; Detection models; Discriminability; Discriminated operant; Matching; Reinforcement; Stimulus control

Indexed keywords

EID: 0000168747     PISSN: 00225002     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1901/jeab.1999.71-439     Document Type: Article

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