Quantitative analyses of observing and attending

Behavioural Processes

Volumn 78, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 145-157

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

^a UTAH STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Attention; Behavioral momentum; Conditioned reinforcement; Matching law; Observing

Indexed keywords

CONDITIONING; ENVIRONMENTAL CUE; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; MODELING; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS;

ARTICLE; ATTENTION; INSTRUMENTAL CONDITIONING; NONHUMAN; PIGEON; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; REINFORCEMENT; STIMULUS; TASK PERFORMANCE; THEORETICAL STUDY;

ANIMALS; ASSOCIATION LEARNING; ATTENTION; CHOICE BEHAVIOR; CONDITIONING, OPERANT; HUMANS; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; REINFORCEMENT (PSYCHOLOGY);

COLUMBA;

EID: 42249085230     PISSN: 03766357     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.beproc.2008.01.012     Document Type: Article

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