Response rate viewed as engagement bouts: Resistance to extinction

Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior

Volumn 77, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 211-231

  Shull, Richard L ^a   Gaynor, Scott T ^a   Grimes, Julie A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT GREENSBORO   (United States)

Author keywords

Behavioral momentum; Bouts; Extinction; Key poke; Rats; Resistance to change; Visits

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; APPETITE; ARTICLE; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; LEARNING; LONG EVANS RAT; LONG TERM MEMORY; MALE; MOTIVATION; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; RAT; REINFORCEMENT; VISION;

ANIMALS; APPETITIVE BEHAVIOR; ASSOCIATION LEARNING; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; EXTINCTION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; MALE; MOTIVATION; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; RATS; RATS, LONG-EVANS; REINFORCEMENT SCHEDULE; RETENTION (PSYCHOLOGY); VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 0036562853     PISSN: 00225002     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1901/jeab.2002.77-211     Document Type: Article

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