Evidence for within-compound learning in an instrumental conditioning with rats

Behavioural Processes

Volumn 44, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 317-322

  Kawai, Nobuyuki ^a   Kitaguchi, Katsuya ^a  

^a KWANSEI GAKUIN UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Punishment; Rats; Running wheel; Sidman avoidance; Within compound association

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; AVOIDANCE BEHAVIOR; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISCRIMINATIVE STIMULUS; INSTRUMENTAL CONDITIONING; LEARNING; MALE; NONHUMAN; PUNISHMENT; RAT; REINFORCEMENT; TREADMILL;

EID: 0033012318     PISSN: 03766357     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0376-6357(98)00040-0     Document Type: Article

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