Within-session changes in responding during variable interval schedules

Behavioural Processes

Volumn 36, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 67-75

  McSweeney, Frances K ^a   Weatherly, Jeffrey N ^a   Swindell, Samantha ^a  

^a WASHINGTON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Key peck; Lever press; Pigeon; Rat; Reinforcement

Indexed keywords

COLUMBA;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; CONDITIONING; CONTROLLED STUDY; NONHUMAN; PIGEON; RAT; REINFORCEMENT; RESPONSE TIME; SATIETY;

EID: 0029911639     PISSN: 03766357     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0376-6357(95)00016-X     Document Type: Article

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