Enhancement of Responding to A After A+/AX+ Training: Challenges for a Comparator Theory of Learning

Journal of Experimental Psychology: Animal Behavior Processes

Volumn 35, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 485-497

  Esber, Guillem R ^a   Pearce, John M ^a   Haselgrove, Mark ^b  

^a CARDIFF UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

blocking; conditioning; stimulus competition; within compound association

Indexed keywords

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMAL; APPETITE; ARTICLE; AUDITORY STIMULATION; CONDITIONED REFLEX; LEARNING; MALE; METHODOLOGY; PERCEPTIVE DISCRIMINATION; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGICAL THEORY; RAT; REINFORCEMENT;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; APPETITIVE BEHAVIOR; ASSOCIATION LEARNING; CONDITIONING, CLASSICAL; DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); EXTINCTION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; LEARNING; MALE; PRACTICE (PSYCHOLOGY); PSYCHOLOGICAL THEORY; RATS;

RATTUS;

EID: 70350464973     PISSN: 00977403     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0014908     Document Type: Article

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