Within-session changes in responding during concurrent fixed interval variable interval schedules

Animal Learning and Behavior

Volumn 27, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 236-248

  Mcsweeney, Frances K ^a   Swindell, Samantha ^a   Weatherly, Jeffrey N ^b  

^a WASHINGTON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b MCNEESE STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; MALE; NONHUMAN; PIGEON; RAT; REINFORCEMENT; RESPONSE TIME;

ANIMALIA; COLUMBA;

EID: 0033003321     PISSN: 00904996     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/BF03199680     Document Type: Article

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