Every day at about 4: 30, Jazz, a Hungarian Vizsla dog, leaps up on the sofa and looks out
for his owner who always comes home at 5: 00. He doesn't need an internal clock because …

Interval schedules of reinforcement maintained pigeons' key‐pecking in six experiments.
Each schedule was specified in terms of mean interval, which determined the maximum rate …

Kelleher and Gollub (1962) and Kelleher (1966) have reviewed the important techniques
that have been used to study conditioned reinforcement. Chained schedules and other …

Effective conditioning requires a correlation between the experimenter's definition of a
response and an organism's, but an animal's perception of its behavior differs from ours …

This classic edition of the Handbook of Operant Behavior presents seminal work in the field
of learning and behavior, foreshadowing a new direction for learning research, and …

Seven studies assessed the ability of 36 male albino Norway rats to process temporal
information from 2 internal clocks simultaneously and independently. In the 1st 6 …

Since foraging in nature can be viewed as instrumental behavior, choice between sources of
food, known as “patches,” can be viewed as choice between instrumental response …

In 4 experiments, male or female PVG hooded rats were trained on spatial discriminations in
which reward was delayed for 1 min. Exp I tested BT Lett's (see record 1977-04738-001) …

Because assignment completion is often reinforced, researchers have posited that when
students work on assignments with many discrete tasks (eg, 20 mathematics problems), that …

The approach to psychology advocated by the radical behaviourists was often
misunderstood and frequently gave rise to controversy. Originally published in 1974, this …