Behavioral economics and within-session changes in responding.
Pigeons and rats responded on fixed-ratio schedules with requirements ranging from 5 to 120 responses. Consistent with past results from several schedules and procedures, responding usually changed systematically within experimental sessions. The within-session changes were usually larger and were...
| Publicado en: | Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior Vol. 72; no. 3; pp. 355 - 372 |
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Society for the Experimental Analysis of Behavior
November 1999
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