Superstitious responding and reinforcement rate under concurrent variable-interval extinction schedules

Behavioural Processes

Volumn 53, Issue 3, 2001, Pages 163-170

  Doughty, Adam H ^a   Shahan, Timothy A ^a   Lattal, Kennon A ^a  

^a WEST VIRGINIA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Adventitious reinforcement; Changeover; Concurrent schedule; Pigeon; Reinforcement rate; Superstition

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; CONTROLLED STUDY; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; INSTRUMENTAL CONDITIONING; NONHUMAN; PIGEON; REINFORCEMENT; STIMULUS RESPONSE; TIME;

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EID: 0035953756     PISSN: 03766357     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0376-6357(01)00140-1     Document Type: Article

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