Reasoning Rats or Associative Animals? A Common-Element Analysis of the Effects of Additive and Subadditive Pretraining on Blocking

Journal of Experimental Psychology: Animal Behavior Processes

Volumn 36, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 296-306

  Haselgrove, Mark ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

associative learning; blocking; common elements; reasoning

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONDITIONED REFLEX; LEARNING; PHYSIOLOGY; PROBLEM SOLVING; PSYCHOLOGICAL THEORY; RAT;

ANIMALS; ASSOCIATION; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONDITIONING, CLASSICAL; GENERALIZATION (PSYCHOLOGY); PROBLEM SOLVING; PSYCHOLOGICAL THEORY; RATS;

ANIMALIA; RATTUS;

EID: 77950932506     PISSN: 00977403     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0016603     Document Type: Article

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