Within-session changes in responding during concurrent schedules with different reinforcers in the components

Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior

Volumn 66, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 369-390

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

^a WASHINGTON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Concurrent schedule; Key peck; Lever press; Matching law; Pigeons; Rats; Within session patterns of responding

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; LEARNING; MALE; PIGEONS AND DOVES; RAT; REINFORCEMENT; SPRAGUE DAWLEY RAT; TIME;

ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; COLUMBIDAE; LEARNING; MALE; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; REINFORCEMENT SCHEDULE; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 0030292432     PISSN: 00225002     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1901/jeab.1996.66-369     Document Type: Article

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