Stock optimizing in choice when a token deposit is the operant

Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior

Volumn 76, Issue 3, 2001, Pages 245-263

  Widholm, John J ^a   Silberberg, Alan ^b   Hursh, Steven R ^b   Imam, Abdulrazaq A ^b   Warren Boulton, Frederick R ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Behavioral economics; Choice; Food; Maximizing; Monkeys; Token deposit

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ARTICLE; DECISION MAKING; INSTRUMENTAL CONDITIONING; MACACA; MALE; PHYSIOLOGY; REINFORCEMENT;

ANIMAL; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; CHOICE BEHAVIOR; CONDITIONING, OPERANT; MACACA MULATTA; MALE; REINFORCEMENT SCHEDULE; SUPPORT, U.S. GOV'T, NON-P.H.S.; SUPPORT, U.S. GOV'T, P.H.S.; TOKEN ECONOMY;

EID: 0035513035     PISSN: 00225002     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1901/jeab.2001.76-245     Document Type: Article

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