Reinforcer satiation and resistance to change of responding maintained by qualitatively different reinforcers

Behavioural Processes

Volumn 81, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 126-132

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

^a UTAH STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Behavioral momentum theory; Contrafreeloading; Disrupters; Lever press; Qualitatively different reinforcers; Rat; Satiation

Indexed keywords

SUCROSE;

BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; RODENT; THEORETICAL STUDY;

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL FOOD; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; INSTRUMENTAL CONDITIONING; NONHUMAN; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; REINFORCEMENT; SATIETY; STIMULUS RESPONSE;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; CONDITIONING, OPERANT; DIETARY SUCROSE; DRINKING BEHAVIOR; EXTINCTION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FOOD; MOTIVATION; RATS; RATS, LONG-EVANS; REINFORCEMENT (PSYCHOLOGY); SATIATION;

RATTUS;

EID: 63349099733     PISSN: 03766357     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.beproc.2008.12.002     Document Type: Article

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