Transfer of behavioral control by a discriminative stimulus (S D ) between different instrumental responses trained with the same outcome has been consistently observed in nonhuman animals, regardless of whether the discriminative stimulus and the instrumental response have undergone extinction. Based on this result, it has been proposed that extinction of nonhuman instrumental learning does no...

today, the discussion of regularity monetary policy in achieving inflation and output gap stabilization is important. in this paper, we investigated the persistence of the output gap in iran economy and then by using a hybrid new keynesian model based on quarterly data for 1990:1- 2011:3. we compared three alternative instrumental rules in monetary policy for iran economy. the results indicated...

Two experiments used rats to examine the transfer of control of a stimulus to a new instrumental response. That transfer was successful to the degree that the stimulus and the response shared a common outcome. The transfer was more substantial, however, when the stimulus signaled the availability of that outcome for another instrumental response compared with signaling its occurrence in a Pavlo...