Long-term effects of suppressing the preratio pause

Behavioural Processes

Volumn 72, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 32-37

  Derenne, Adam ^a   Richardson, Joseph V ^b   Baron, Alan ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH DAKOTA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MILWAUKEE   (United States)

Author keywords

Fixed ratio; Preratio pause; Procrastination; Punishment

Indexed keywords

REINFORCEMENT;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; MALE; NONHUMAN; PERFORMANCE; PUNISHMENT; RAT; REINFORCEMENT; TRAINING;

ANIMALS; APPETITIVE BEHAVIOR; ASSOCIATION LEARNING; ATTENTION; BEHAVIOR THERAPY; CONDITIONING, OPERANT; EXTINCTION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; INHIBITION (PSYCHOLOGY); MALE; MOTIVATION; PUNISHMENT; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; REINFORCEMENT SCHEDULE;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 32344442268     PISSN: 03766357     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.beproc.2005.11.011     Document Type: Article

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