Overexpectation and Trial Massing

Journal of Experimental Psychology: Animal Behavior Processes

Volumn 35, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 186-196

  Sissons, Heather T ^a   Miller, Ralph R ^a  

^a BINGHAMTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

counteraction; cue competition; overexpectation; trial massing

Indexed keywords

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; CONDITIONED REFLEX; FEMALE; INHIBITION (PSYCHOLOGY); MALE; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGICAL MODEL; RAT; REINFORCEMENT; SPRAGUE DAWLEY RAT;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; CONDITIONING, CLASSICAL; CUES; EXTINCTION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; FEMALE; INHIBITION (PSYCHOLOGY); MALE; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; REINFORCEMENT SCHEDULE;

RATTUS;

EID: 65649142999     PISSN: 00977403     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0013426     Document Type: Article

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