Rats' choices between one and two delayed reinforcers

Learning and Behavior

Volumn 35, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 169-176

  Mazur, James E ^a  

^a SOUTHERN CONNECTICUT STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONDITIONING; HYPERBOLIC DECAY MODEL; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; NONHUMAN; PIGEON; PREDICTIVE VALIDITY; RAT; REINFORCEMENT;

EID: 34548624297     PISSN: 15434494     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/BF03193052     Document Type: Article

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