Effects of reinforcer quality and step size on rats' performance under progressive ratio schedules

Behavioural Processes

Volumn 78, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 246-252

  Covarrubias, Pablo ^a   Aparicio, Carlos F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GUADALAJARA   (Mexico)

Author keywords

Food; Progressive ratio schedules; Rats; Saccharin; Step size

Indexed keywords

SACCHARIN;

NUMERICAL MODEL; PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT; RODENT;

ACCURACY; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; FOOD; MALE; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; NONHUMAN; PERFORMANCE; RAT; REINFORCEMENT; TASK PERFORMANCE; THEORETICAL STUDY;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; CHOICE BEHAVIOR; CONDITIONING, OPERANT; GENERALIZATION (PSYCHOLOGY); MALE; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; NONLINEAR DYNAMICS; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; RATS; REACTION TIME; REINFORCEMENT SCHEDULE; REWARD;

RATTUS;

EID: 42249088876     PISSN: 03766357     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.beproc.2008.02.001     Document Type: Article

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