Differential Outcome Effects in Pavlovian Biconditional and Ambiguous Occasion Setting Tasks

Journal of Experimental Psychology: Animal Behavior Processes

Volumn 36, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 471-481

  Delamater, Andrew R ^a   Kranjec, Alexander ^a   Fein, Matthew I ^a  

^a CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

Author keywords

Acquired distinctiveness; Ambiguous occasion setting; Biconditional discrimination; Differential outcome effect

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CONDITIONED REFLEX; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; LEARNING; MALE; RAT; REINFORCEMENT; SPRAGUE DAWLEY RAT;

ANIMALS; ASSOCIATION LEARNING; CONDITIONING, CLASSICAL; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; MALE; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; REINFORCEMENT (PSYCHOLOGY);

RATTUS;

EID: 78049491688     PISSN: 00977403     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0019136     Document Type: Article

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