Reporting contingencies of reinforcement in concurrent schedules

Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior

Volumn 69, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 161-183

  Jones, B Max ^a   Davison, Michael ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Choice; Concurrent schedules; Conditional discrimination; Discriminability; Key peck; Pigeons

Indexed keywords

EID: 0040761360     PISSN: 00225002     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1901/jeab.1998.69-161     Document Type: Article

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