Economics, ecologics, and mechanics: the dynamics of responding under conditions of varying motivation.

The mechanics of behavior developed by Killeen (1994) is extended to deal with deprivation and satiation and with recovery of arousal at the beginning of sessions. The extended theory is validated against satiation curves and within-session changes in response rates. Anomalies, such as (a) the posi...

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Published in:	Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior Vol. 64; pp. 405 - 432
Main Author:	Killeen, Peter R.
Format:	Article
Published:	Society for the Experimental Analysis of Behavior November 1995
Subjects:	Motivation (Psychology) Human behavior Psychology Economics
Online Access:	View this record in EBSCOhost