Abstract Prevalence estimations for Autism Spectrum Disorder have been increasing over
the past few years with rates now reported to be at 1: 68. Interventions that are based on …

Adjunctive behaviors such as schedule-induced polydipsia are said to be induced by
periodic delivery of incentives, but not reinforced by them. That standard treatment assumes …

Growing at an ever-increasing pace for over a century, the solid body of concepts and facts
that constitute the science of learning demand a comprehensive, systematic introduction …

Wistar rats were exposed to a multiple fixed-time 30-s food delivery schedule, with an on/off
tone signalling the two components. Animals were matched in accordance with the levels of …

Abstract Boakes, Patterson, Kendig, and Harris (2015) showed that schedule-induced
drinking (SID), typically concentrated in the first half of the interpellet interval, is not moved …

It has been suggested that schedule-induced behaviors allow organisms to adapt better to
temporal regularities of the environment. The main goal of the present study was to observe …

A series of recent studies from our laboratory have added to the preceding literature on the
potential role of water (in addition to food) as a positive reinforcer in the schedule-induced …

Schedule-induced drinking has been a theoretical question of concern ever since it was first
described more than 50 years ago. It has been classified as adjunctive behavior; that is …

The beginnings of modem Spanish psychology are found in the final decade of the
nineteenth century (Carpintero 1982). The leading figures until the 1930s were Ramon-y …

Eight food-deprived Wistar rats developed stable patterns of lever pressing and licking when
exposed to a fixed-time 30-s schedule of food pellet presentation. The rats were trained to …