Making sense of sensitivity in the human operant literature

Behavior Analyst

Volumn 21, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 1-12

  Madden, Gregory J ^a   Chase, Philip N ^b   Joyce, James H ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT   (United States)

^b WEST VIRGINIA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Concurrent schedules; Humans; Interspecies continuity; Schedules of reinforcement; Sensitivity

Indexed keywords

EID: 0032380284     PISSN: 07386729     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF03392775     Document Type: Review

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