Influence of the reinforcement magnitude on omission effects

Behavioural Processes

Volumn 88, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 60-62

  Judice Daher, Danielle Marcilio ^a   Tavares, Tatiane Ferreira ^a   Bueno, José Lino Oliveira ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Omission effects; Operant conditioning; Rat; Reinforcement magnitude

Indexed keywords

BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY; BEHAVIORAL RESPONSE; DATA SET; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; FACILITATION; INHIBITION; RODENT;

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR CONTROL; CONTROLLED STUDY; FRUSTRATION; MALE; MOTIVATION; NONHUMAN; RAT; REINFORCEMENT; REINFORCEMENT OMISSION EFFECTS; TIME PERCEPTION;

ANIMALS; CONDITIONING, OPERANT; MALE; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; REINFORCEMENT (PSYCHOLOGY); REINFORCEMENT SCHEDULE; SOCIAL FACILITATION;

RATTUS;

EID: 80051601790     PISSN: 03766357     EISSN: 18728308     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.beproc.2011.06.010     Document Type: Article

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