The Matching Law applies a behavioral perspective to its comprehensive coverage of empirical research conducted in the areas of choice and matching as well as within the associated area of behavioral approaches to signal detection. While presenting a quantitative overview of the extensive literature in these areas, The Matching Law:
* summarizes the extensive experimental literature on choice
* describes and organizes these data
* focuses on the ways in which animals and humans choose between simultaneous and successive alternatives
* summarizes and reanalyses research on concurrent, concurrent-chain, and multiple schedules.
- ISBN10 0898599237
- ISBN13 9780898599237
- Publish Date 1 October 1987
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 3 October 2009
- Publish Country US
- Publisher Taylor & Francis Inc
- Imprint Lawrence Erlbaum Associates Inc
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 296
- Language English