Within-subject partial reinforcement extinction effect in autoshaping

Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology Section B: Comparative and Physiological Psychology

Volumn 52, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 75-87

  Rescorla, Robert A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

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