Effect of US identity on elimination and recovery of autoshaped responding with explicitly unpaired and degraded contingency extinction procedures

Behavioural Processes

Volumn 74, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 1-12

  Colwill, Ruth M ^a  

^a BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Autoshaping; Degraded contingency; Explicitly unpaired; Extinction; Lindblom and Jenkins; Noncontingent; Pavlovian conditioning; Recovery; Response elimination; Resurgence

Indexed keywords

BEHAVIORAL RESPONSE; BIRD; EXTINCTION; FEEDING; FOOD;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; CONDITIONING; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; NONHUMAN; PIGEON; REINFORCEMENT; STIMULUS RESPONSE;

ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; COLUMBIDAE; CONDITIONING, CLASSICAL; EXTINCTION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; LEARNING; RECOVERY OF FUNCTION; REINFORCEMENT (PSYCHOLOGY);

NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

COLUMBA;

EID: 33845202664     PISSN: 03766357     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.beproc.2006.09.005     Document Type: Article

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