Effects of baseline reinforcement rate on operant ABA and ABC renewal

Behavioural Processes

Volumn 108, Issue , 2014, Pages 87-93

  Berry, Meredith S ^a   Sweeney, Mary M ^a,b   Odum, Amy L ^a  

^a UTAH STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Johns Hop kins University School of Medicine   (United States)

Author keywords

ABA renewal; ABC renewal; Behavioral momentum theory; Extinction; Persistence; Relapse

Indexed keywords

BASELINE SURVEY; BIRD; EXTINCTION; PERSISTENCE; REINFORCEMENT; RENEWAL POLICY;

ARTICLE; AVERAGING; BEHAVIOR; INSTRUMENTAL CONDITIONING; NONHUMAN; PIGEON; REINFORCEMENT; RELAPSE; STIMULUS; VISION; ANIMAL; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; PHYSIOLOGY;

ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; CONDITIONING, OPERANT; EXTINCTION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; REINFORCEMENT (PSYCHOLOGY); REINFORCEMENT SCHEDULE;

EID: 84907979440     PISSN: 03766357     EISSN: 18728308     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.beproc.2014.09.009     Document Type: Article

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