A behavior systems view of the organization of multiple responses during a partially or continuously reinforced interfood clock

Learning and Behavior

Volumn 33, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 99-110

  Silva, Kathleen M ^a   Timberlake, William ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF REDLANDS   (United States)

^b INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ARTICLE; CONDITIONING; CONTINUOUS REINFORCEMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; FOOD ANALYSIS; FORAGING BEHAVIOR; LOCOMOTION; NONHUMAN; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PAVLOVIAN PARTIAL REINFORCEMENT; PERIODICITY; PREDICTION; RAT; REINFORCEMENT; REWARD; STIMULUS RESPONSE; TIME; ANIMAL; CONDITIONED REFLEX; SPRAGUE DAWLEY RAT;

ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; CONDITIONING, CLASSICAL; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; LOCOMOTION; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; REINFORCEMENT (PSYCHOLOGY); TIME FACTORS;

EID: 22844440225     PISSN: 15434494     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/bf03196054     Document Type: Article

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