Effects of sequential aspects of le arning history;Efectos de los aspectos secuenciales de la historia de aprendizaje

Revista Mexicana de Analisis de la Conducta

Volumn 37, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 109-138

  Mechner, Francis ^a   Jones, Laurilyn ^a  

^a The Mechner Foundation   (United States)

Author keywords

Criterial and noncriterial features; Humans; Learning history; Operant classes; Primacy; Recency; Resurgence; Sequential effects

Indexed keywords

EID: 80053045578     PISSN: 01854534     EISSN: 20070802     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5514/rmac.v37.i1.24688     Document Type: Article

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