Extinction as discrimination: The molar view

Behavioural Processes

Volumn 90, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 101-110

  Baum, William M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Discrimination; Extinction; Molar view; Pigeons; Reinforcement; Variable interval schedule

Indexed keywords

BIRD; DISCRIMINANT ANALYSIS; EXTINCTION; INHIBITION; MOLECULAR ANALYSIS; PHYSIOLOGICAL RESPONSE; REINFORCEMENT;

ARTICLE; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FOOD AVAILABILITY; FOOD INTAKE; MOLECULAR ECOLOGY; NONHUMAN; PIGEON; SOCIAL DISCRIMINATION; SPECIES EXTINCTION; STRENGTH;

ANIMALS; COLUMBIDAE; CONDITIONING, OPERANT; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; EXTINCTION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; REINFORCEMENT (PSYCHOLOGY); REINFORCEMENT SCHEDULE;

COLUMBA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 84860176258     PISSN: 03766357     EISSN: 18728308     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.beproc.2012.02.011     Document Type: Article

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