Response allocation in a rapid-acquisition concurrent-chains procedure: Effects of overall terminal-link duration

Behavioural Processes

Volumn 81, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 233-237

  Christensen, Darren R ^a   Grace, Randolph C ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS FOR MEDICAL SCIENCES   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CANTERBURY   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Acquisition; Choice; Concurrent chains; Hysteresis; Pigeons; Pseudorandom binary sequence; Reinforcer delay; Terminal link effect

Indexed keywords

BEHAVIORAL RESPONSE; GAMEBIRD; HYSTERESIS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CRITERION VARIABLE; DATA ANALYSIS; DECISION MAKING; NONHUMAN; PARAMETER; PIGEON; SPATIAL DISCRIMINATION; STIMULUS RESPONSE;

ALGORITHMS; ANIMALS; CHOICE BEHAVIOR; COLUMBIDAE; CONDITIONING, OPERANT; DECISION MAKING; FOOD; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; MODELS, STATISTICAL; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; REINFORCEMENT (PSYCHOLOGY); REINFORCEMENT SCHEDULE;

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EID: 64949176644     PISSN: 03766357     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.beproc.2009.01.006     Document Type: Article

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