Response-cost punishment with pigeons: Further evidence of response suppression via token loss

Learning and Behavior

Volumn 36, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 29-41

  Raiff, Bethany R ^a,b   Bullock, Christopher E ^a   Hackenberg, Timothy D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

^b University of Florida ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; MALE; NONHUMAN; PIGEON; PUNISHMENT; REINFORCEMENT; RESPONSE TIME; ANIMAL; CONDITIONING; PIGEONS AND DOVES; REWARD;

ANIMALS; COLUMBIDAE; CONDITIONING (PSYCHOLOGY); PUNISHMENT; REINFORCEMENT (PSYCHOLOGY); REINFORCEMENT SCHEDULE; REWARD;

EID: 46649111026     PISSN: 15434494     EISSN: 15434508     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/LB.36.1.29     Document Type: Article

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