Acquisition of discriminated operant responding: The effects of brief reinforcement delays

Psychological Record

Volumn 54, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 603-620

  Andrzejewski, Matthew E ^a,c   Terry Cain, Shelly ^b   Bersh, Philip J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^b TEMPLE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AND PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

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EID: 11244297071     PISSN: 00332933     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF03395494     Document Type: Article

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