Summation and overexpectation with qualitatively different outcomes

Animal Learning and Behavior

Volumn 27, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 50-62

  Rescorla, Robert A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; APPETITE; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; BEHAVIOR; CONDITIONING; LEARNING; NONHUMAN; RAT; STIMULUS RESPONSE; TASK PERFORMANCE;

ANIMALIA; STAPHYLOCOCCUS PHAGE 3A;

EID: 0032991044     PISSN: 00904996     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/BF03199431     Document Type: Article

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