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Rationalist versus empirical approaches to observing and conditioned reinforcement: The (so-called) preference-for-signaled-shock

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  04 February 2010

J. J. Furedy  and
G. B. Biederman
J. J. Furedy
Affiliation:
Department of Psychology, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, M5S 1A1, Canada
G. B. Biederman
Affiliation:
Department of Psychology, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, M5S 1A1, Canada
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Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 9 , Issue 2 , June 1986 , pp. 367
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1986

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