Teaching pigeons to commit base-rate neglect

Psychological Science

Volumn 16, Issue 10, 2005, Pages 820-825

  Fantino, Edmund ^a   Kanevsky, Inna Glaz ^a   Charlton, Shawn R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; DECISION MAKING; METHODOLOGY; PERCEPTIVE DISCRIMINATION; PHYSIOLOGY; PIGEONS AND DOVES; PROBABILITY; REINFORCEMENT; TASK PERFORMANCE; TEACHING;

ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; CHOICE BEHAVIOR; COLUMBIDAE; CUES; DECISION MAKING; DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); JUDGMENT; KNOWLEDGE OF RESULTS (PSYCHOLOGY); PROBABILITY; REINFORCEMENT (PSYCHOLOGY); TASK PERFORMANCE AND ANALYSIS; TEACHING;

EID: 27744451704     PISSN: 09567976     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9280.2005.01620.x     Document Type: Article

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