Is extinction the hallmark of operant discrimination?: Reinforcement and SΔ effects

Behavioural Processes

Volumn 74, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 49-63

  Andrzejewski, Matthew E ^a,b   Ryals, Curtis D ^a   Higgins, Sean ^b   Sulkowski, Jennifer ^b   Doney, Janice ^b   Kelley, Ann E ^a   Bersh, Philip J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^b TEMPLE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Lever press; Rat; Rate of reinforcement; S component length; Stimulus control

Indexed keywords

BEHAVIORAL RESPONSE; EXTINCTION; REINFORCEMENT; RODENT;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISCRIMINATIVE STIMULUS; INSTRUMENTAL CONDITIONING; MALE; NONHUMAN; POST HOC ANALYSIS; RAT; REINFORCEMENT; STIMULUS RESPONSE; TASK PERFORMANCE;

ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; CONDITIONING, OPERANT; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; EXTINCTION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; MALE; RATS; RATS, LONG-EVANS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; REINFORCEMENT (PSYCHOLOGY);

EID: 33845188129     PISSN: 03766357     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.beproc.2006.09.010     Document Type: Article

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