Assessing the role of alternative response rates and reinforcer rates in resistance to extinction of target responding when combining stimuli

Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior

Volumn 105, Issue 3, 2016, Pages 427-444

  Podlesnik, Christopher A ^a,b   Bai, John Y H ^b   Skinner, Katherine A ^b  

^a FLORIDA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Behavioral momentum theory; Compound stimuli; Extinction; Keypeck; Pigeon; Response competition

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; COLOR; COLUMBIDAE; INSTRUMENTAL CONDITIONING; PHOTOSTIMULATION; REINFORCEMENT; REWARD;

ANIMALS; COLOR; COLUMBIDAE; CONDITIONING, OPERANT; EXTINCTION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; PHOTIC STIMULATION; REINFORCEMENT (PSYCHOLOGY); REINFORCEMENT SCHEDULE; REWARD;

EID: 84968747344     PISSN: 00225002     EISSN: 19383711     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/jeab.206     Document Type: Article

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