Contrasting the overexpectation and extinction effects

Behavioural Processes

Volumn 81, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 322-327

  Witnauer, James E ^a   Miller, Ralph R ^a  

^a BINGHAMTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Cue competition; Extinction; Overexpectation; Pavlovian conditioning

Indexed keywords

CONDITIONING; ENVIRONMENTAL CUE; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; EXTINCTION RISK;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONDITIONED REFLEX; CONDITIONING; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; FEMALE; MALE; NONHUMAN; PAIRED ASSOCIATE LEARNING; RAT; REINFORCEMENT; STIMULUS; STIMULUS RESPONSE;

ANIMALS; CONDITIONING, OPERANT; CUES; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; EXTINCTION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; FEMALE; MALE; MOTIVATION; OVERLEARNING; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; REINFORCEMENT (PSYCHOLOGY);

RATTUS;

EID: 64949156327     PISSN: 03766357     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.beproc.2009.01.010     Document Type: Article

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