Within-compound associations in retrospective revaluation and in direct learning: A challenge for comparator theory

Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology Section B: Comparative and Physiological Psychology

Volumn 57, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 25-53

  Melchers, Klaus G ^a,c   Lachnit, Harald ^a   Shanks, David R ^b  

^a PHILIPPS UNIVERSITY MARBURG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ASSOCIATION; ATTENTION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONDITIONING; FEMALE; FOOD PREFERENCE; HUMAN; INHIBITION (PSYCHOLOGY); LEARNING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PSYCHOLOGICAL MODEL; REINFORCEMENT; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; REVIEW;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ASSOCIATION LEARNING; ATTENTION; CONDITIONING (PSYCHOLOGY); CUES; FEMALE; FOOD PREFERENCES; GENERALIZATION (PSYCHOLOGY); HUMANS; INHIBITION (PSYCHOLOGY); MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; REINFORCEMENT (PSYCHOLOGY); RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 0842346763     PISSN: 02724995     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/02724990344000042     Document Type: Review

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