Upcoming food-pellet reinforcement alters rats' lever pressing for liquid sucrose delivered by a progressive-ratio schedule

Behavioural Processes

Volumn 63, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 73-86

  Weatherly, Jeffrey N ^a   King, Brent M ^a   Uran, Erin L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH DAKOTA   (United States)

Author keywords

Induction; Lever press; Post reinforcement pause; Progressive ratio schedule; Random interval schedule; Rats; Running response rate

Indexed keywords

SUCROSE;

BEHAVIOR; INDUCED RESPONSE; REINFORCEMENT; RODENT;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXPERIMENTATION; FOOD; LIQUID; MALE; NONHUMAN; PERFORMANCE; RANDOMIZATION; RAT; REINFORCEMENT;

EID: 0038578304     PISSN: 03766357     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0376-6357(03)00033-0     Document Type: Article

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