More Rapid Associative Change with Retraining than with Initial Training

Journal of Experimental Psychology: Animal Behavior Processes

Volumn 29, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 251-260

  Rescorla, Rober A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ARTICLE; CONDITIONING; FEMALE; LEARNING; MALE; PHYSIOLOGY; PIGEONS AND DOVES; RAT; REINFORCEMENT; SPRAGUE DAWLEY RAT; TEACHING;

ANIMALS; ASSOCIATION LEARNING; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; COLUMBIDAE; CONDITIONING (PSYCHOLOGY); EXTINCTION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; FEMALE; MALE; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; TEACHING;

ANIMALIA; COLUMBA;

EID: 0142153081     PISSN: 00977403     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0097-7403.29.4.251     Document Type: Article

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