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DEFINING RESPONSE GENERALIZATION IN ORGANIZATIONAL BEHAVIOR MANAGEMENT

On the Necessity of Structure in an Arbitrary World

Using Concurrent Schedules of Reinforcement to Describe Response Generalization

Pages 13-38 | Published online: 12 Oct 2008

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