Savings tests: Separating differences in rate of learning from differences in initial levels

Journal of Experimental Psychology: Animal Behavior Processes

Volumn 28, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 369-377

  Rescorla, Robert A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONDITIONED REFLEX; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; HEARING; INHIBITION (PSYCHOLOGY); LEARNING; LONG TERM MEMORY; MALE; RAT; REACTION TIME; RECALL; REINFORCEMENT; SPRAGUE DAWLEY RAT; VISION;

ANIMALS; ASSOCIATION LEARNING; AUDITORY PERCEPTION; CONDITIONING, CLASSICAL; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; EXTINCTION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; INHIBITION (PSYCHOLOGY); MALE; MENTAL RECALL; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; REACTION TIME; RETENTION (PSYCHOLOGY); VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 0036780499     PISSN: 00977403     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0097-7403.28.4.369     Document Type: Article

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