Free-choice preference under uncertainty

Behavioural Processes

Volumn 49, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 11-19

  Ono, Koichi ^a  

^a KOMAZAWA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Free choice; Key peck; Multiple concurrent chain schedules; Pigeons; Preference; Uncertainty

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DECISION MAKING; FOOD; NONHUMAN; PIGEON; PROBABILITY; REINFORCEMENT; STIMULUS;

EID: 0034737709     PISSN: 03766357     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0376-6357(00)00069-3     Document Type: Article

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