When to respond? And how much?. Temporal control and response output on mixed-fixed-interval schedules with unequally probable components

Behavioural Processes

Volumn 77, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 33-42

  Whitaker, S ^a   Lowe, C F ^a   Wearden, J H ^a  

^a KEELE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Mixed FI schedules; Probability of reinforcement; Temporal control

Indexed keywords

BEHAVIORAL RESPONSE; LEARNING; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RODENT; TEMPORAL VARIATION; TIME DEPENDENT BEHAVIOR;

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR CONTROL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA ANALYSIS; MALE; NONHUMAN; NONLINEAR REGRESSION ANALYSIS; NORMAL DISTRIBUTION; PROBABILITY; RAT;

ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; MALE; RATS; REINFORCEMENT (PSYCHOLOGY); REINFORCEMENT SCHEDULE; TIME PERCEPTION;

ANIMALIA; RATTUS;

EID: 36848999312     PISSN: 03766357     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.beproc.2007.06.001     Document Type: Article

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