Blocking unblocking, and overexpectation in autoshaping with pigeons

Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior

Volumn 65, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 575-591

  Khallad, Yacoub ^a   Moore, Jay ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MILWAUKEE   (United States)

Author keywords

Autoshaping; Blocking; Key peck; Overexpectation; Pigeons; Rescorla Wagner model; Unblocking

Indexed keywords

EID: 0001132670     PISSN: 00225002     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1901/jeab.1996.65-575     Document Type: Article

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