Response Rate and Sensitivity to the Molar Feedback Function Relating Response and Reinforcement Rate on VI+ Schedules of Reinforcement

Journal of Experimental Psychology: Animal Behavior Processes

Volumn 33, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 428-439

  Reed, Phil ^a  

^a SWANSEA UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

rats; response rate; response variability; schedules of reinforcement

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; INSTRUMENTAL CONDITIONING; LEARNING; MALE; MOTIVATION; RAT; REACTION TIME; REINFORCEMENT; SPRAGUE DAWLEY RAT; TIME PERCEPTION;

ANIMALS; ASSOCIATION LEARNING; ATTENTION; CONDITIONING, OPERANT; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; FEEDBACK, PSYCHOLOGICAL; MALE; MOTIVATION; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; REACTION TIME; REINFORCEMENT SCHEDULE; TIME PERCEPTION;

RATTUS;

EID: 36048957174     PISSN: 00977403     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0097-7403.33.4.428     Document Type: Article

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