Acquisition with partial and continuous reinforcement in rat magazine approach

Journal of Experimental Psychology: Animal Behavior Processes

Volumn 31, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 319-333

  Gottlieb, Daniel A ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Classical conditioning; Conditioned approach; Partial reinforcement; Time accumulation models

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONDITIONED REFLEX; FEMALE; IMITATION; LEARNING; MALE; META ANALYSIS; PERCEPTIVE DISCRIMINATION; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGICAL MODEL; RAT; REINFORCEMENT; SPRAGUE DAWLEY RAT; TIME;

ANIMALS; ASSOCIATION LEARNING; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; CONDITIONING, CLASSICAL; DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); FEMALE; IMITATIVE BEHAVIOR; MALE; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; REINFORCEMENT SCHEDULE; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 23844465148     PISSN: 00977403     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0097-7403.31.3.319     Document Type: Article

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