Within-session changes in responding during autoshaping and automaintenance procedures

Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior

Volumn 66, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 51-61

  Mcsweeney, Frances K ^a   Swindell, Samantha ^a   Weatherly, Jeffrey N ^a  

^a WASHINGTON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Autoshaping; Classical conditioning; Key peck; Operant conditioning; Pigeons; Variable interval schedule; Within session changes in responding

Indexed keywords

EID: 0038981408     PISSN: 00225002     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1901/jeab.1996.66-51     Document Type: Article

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