Effects of past and upcoming response-force requirements on fixed-ratio pausing

Behavioural Processes

Volumn 68, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 91-95

  Wade Galuska, Tammy ^a,b   Perone, Michael ^a   Wirth, Oliver ^a,b  

^a WEST VIRGINIA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR OCCUPATIONAL SAFETY AND HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

Escape; Fixed ratio; Food deprivation; Multiple schedule; Pause; Response effort

Indexed keywords

BEHAVIOR;

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; COMPARTMENT MODEL; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FOOD INTAKE; MALE; NONHUMAN; RAT; STIMULUS RESPONSE;

ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FOOD DEPRIVATION; LOCOMOTION; MALE; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; REINFORCEMENT (PSYCHOLOGY); TIME FACTORS;

EID: 11844288288     PISSN: 03766357     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.beproc.2004.10.001     Document Type: Article

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