Response-reinforcer relations and resistance to change

Behavioural Processes

Volumn 77, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 109-125

  Podlesnik, Christopher A ^a   Shahan, Timothy A ^a  

^a UTAH STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Behavioral momentum theory; Key peck; Multiple schedules; Pigeon; Resistance to change; Response independent reinforcement; Unsignaled delay of reinforcement

Indexed keywords

BEHAVIORAL RESPONSE; BIRD; SIGNALING;

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BEHAVIORAL SCIENCE; CONTROLLED STUDY; NONHUMAN; PIGEON; REINFORCEMENT; RESPONSE TIME; RESPONSE VARIABLE; STIMULUS RESPONSE;

ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; COLUMBIDAE; CONDITIONING (PSYCHOLOGY); PSYCHOLOGICAL THEORY; REINFORCEMENT (PSYCHOLOGY); REINFORCEMENT SCHEDULE;

COLUMBA;

EID: 36849071368     PISSN: 03766357     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.beproc.2007.07.002     Document Type: Article

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