Models of ratio schedule performance

Journal of Experimental Psychology: Animal Behavior Processes

Volumn 23, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 351-367

  Bizo, Lewis A ^a   Killeen, Peter R ^a  

^a ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; LEARNING; MOTIVATION; PIGEONS AND DOVES; RAT; REINFORCEMENT; THEORETICAL MODEL;

ANIMALS; ASSOCIATION LEARNING; ATTENTION; COLUMBIDAE; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; MODELS, THEORETICAL; MOTIVATION; RATS; REINFORCEMENT SCHEDULE;

EID: 0031184351     PISSN: 00977403     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0097-7403.23.3.351     Document Type: Article

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