Context effects on choice

Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior

Volumn 70, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 301-320

  Goldshmidt, Jay N ^a   Lattal, K Matthew ^a,b   Fantino, Edmund ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Choice; Concurrent chains; Conditioned reinforcement; Delay reduction theory; Intertrial interval; Key peck; Pigeons

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ARTICLE; CONDITIONING; DECISION MAKING; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; PHYSIOLOGY; PIGEONS AND DOVES; REINFORCEMENT;

ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; CHOICE BEHAVIOR; COLUMBIDAE; CONDITIONING (PSYCHOLOGY); DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; REINFORCEMENT SCHEDULE;

EID: 0032214151     PISSN: 00225002     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1901/jeab.1998.70-301     Document Type: Article

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