A theory of attending and reinforcement in conditional discriminations

Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior

Volumn 84, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 281-303

  Nevin, John A ^a   Davison, Michael ^b   Shahan, Timothy A ^c  

^a Box 162 ^*  (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND   (New Zealand)

^c UTAH STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Attending; Behavioral momentum; Conditional discrimination; Matching to sample; Observing behavior; Signal detection

Indexed keywords

ATTENTION; CONDITIONING; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; HUMAN; PERCEPTIVE DISCRIMINATION; PSYCHOLOGICAL MODEL; PSYCHOLOGICAL THEORY; REINFORCEMENT; REVIEW;

ATTENTION; CONDITIONING (PSYCHOLOGY); DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; HUMANS; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; PSYCHOLOGICAL THEORY; REINFORCEMENT (PSYCHOLOGY); SIGNAL DETECTION (PSYCHOLOGY);

EID: 26844450347     PISSN: 00225002     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1901/jeab.2005.97-04     Document Type: Review

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