Reinforcement context and resistance to change

Behavioural Processes

Volumn 64, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 91-101

  Grace, Randolph C ^a   McLean, Anthony P ^a   Nevin, John A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CANTERBURY   (New Zealand)

^b Box 162 ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Context of reinforcement; Extinction; Key peck; Multiple schedules; Pigeons; Prefeeding; Resistance to change

Indexed keywords

BEHAVIOR;

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEEDING; FOOD; NONHUMAN; PIGEON; PREDICTION; REINFORCEMENT; TASK PERFORMANCE;

COLUMBA;

EID: 0042160246     PISSN: 03766357     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0376-6357(03)00126-8     Document Type: Article

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