HUMAN OBSERVING: MAINTAINED BY STIMULI CORRELATED WITH REINFORCEMENT BUT NOT EXTINCTION

Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior

Volumn 40, Issue 2, 1983, Pages 193-210

  Fantino, Edmund ^a   Case, David A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

choice; conditioned reinforcement; delay reduction hypothesis; humans; information; lever press; observing behavior; response independent reinforcement; uncertainty reduction

Indexed keywords

EID: 84980279665     PISSN: 00225002     EISSN: 19383711     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1901/jeab.1983.40-193     Document Type: Article

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