The effects of number of sample stimuli and number of choices in a detection task on measures of discriminability

Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior

Volumn 72, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 33-55

  Godfrey, Rebecca ^b   Davison, Michael ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND   (New Zealand)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Conditional discrimination; Key peck; Pigeons; Response reinforcer discriminability; Stimulus response discriminability

Indexed keywords

EID: 0040288857     PISSN: 00225002     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1901/jeab.1999.72-33     Document Type: Article

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