
General account of selection
... lated background against which selection operates. With respect to the immune system, considerable disagreement exists concerning the mechanism that allows the immune system to react selectively against nonself but not self components (e.g., Silverstein & Rose 1997). Numerous versions of learning th ...
... lated background against which selection operates. With respect to the immune system, considerable disagreement exists concerning the mechanism that allows the immune system to react selectively against nonself but not self components (e.g., Silverstein & Rose 1997). Numerous versions of learning th ...
Pelaez, M. - Florida International University
... Pelaez, M., & Moreno, R. (1998). A taxonomy of rules and their correspondence to rule-governed behavior. Mexican Journal of Behavior Analysis, 24, 197-214. Hart, S., Field, T., del Valle, C., & Pelaez-Nogueras, M. (1998). Depressed mothers' interactions with their one-year-old infants. Infant Behavi ...
... Pelaez, M., & Moreno, R. (1998). A taxonomy of rules and their correspondence to rule-governed behavior. Mexican Journal of Behavior Analysis, 24, 197-214. Hart, S., Field, T., del Valle, C., & Pelaez-Nogueras, M. (1998). Depressed mothers' interactions with their one-year-old infants. Infant Behavi ...
Extinction
... Compounding Extinction Stimuli • VERY interesting prediction here for treatment of fear: – If EXT cue is compounded with conditioned inhibitor cue during extinction training – Conditioned inhibitor = signal for ABSCENCE of a US – Conditioned inhibitor = safety signal indicating that the aversive US ...
... Compounding Extinction Stimuli • VERY interesting prediction here for treatment of fear: – If EXT cue is compounded with conditioned inhibitor cue during extinction training – Conditioned inhibitor = signal for ABSCENCE of a US – Conditioned inhibitor = safety signal indicating that the aversive US ...
A Contemporary Behavior Analysis of Anxiety and
... response occurs. The avoidance response usually terminates the warning signal and postpones the next scheduled US presentation. The dominant theoretical approach to explaining findings obtained in research on classical avoidance was two-factor theory, which claimed that avoidance was acquired and ma ...
... response occurs. The avoidance response usually terminates the warning signal and postpones the next scheduled US presentation. The dominant theoretical approach to explaining findings obtained in research on classical avoidance was two-factor theory, which claimed that avoidance was acquired and ma ...
Adjunctive Behavior
... continues to diminish. Even when glimpses of the vaguely distinguished players do occur, some other features in the more proximal environment will, at some point, abruptly gain control of the attending behavior and, in turn, of the private visual awareness behaviors occurring to the observer. It may ...
... continues to diminish. Even when glimpses of the vaguely distinguished players do occur, some other features in the more proximal environment will, at some point, abruptly gain control of the attending behavior and, in turn, of the private visual awareness behaviors occurring to the observer. It may ...
Introduction - National Autism Conference
... • Their work started with the assumption “All of these assumed ‘faculties’ can be described in their ontogenesis by combinations of the principles of operant and respondent conditioning” (Bijou & Baer, 1961, p.720. What follows is a brief description of their chain of propositions: 1. Children are a ...
... • Their work started with the assumption “All of these assumed ‘faculties’ can be described in their ontogenesis by combinations of the principles of operant and respondent conditioning” (Bijou & Baer, 1961, p.720. What follows is a brief description of their chain of propositions: 1. Children are a ...
Articulo MC Luciano - International Journal of Psychology and
... and derived word-object relations, which Lipkens et al. (1993) demonstrated in the absence of an appropriate tacting repertoire. verbal perceptual discriminations of this kind probably establish partitioning of a stimulus into parts or salient features, as specified along formal or non-arbitrary dim ...
... and derived word-object relations, which Lipkens et al. (1993) demonstrated in the absence of an appropriate tacting repertoire. verbal perceptual discriminations of this kind probably establish partitioning of a stimulus into parts or salient features, as specified along formal or non-arbitrary dim ...
as a PDF
... Reward dominance Disinhibition is a heteregeneous concept with important links to many forms of psychopathology. The concept has both personality/temperament and cognitive/information processing elements (Nigg, 2000). We define disinhibition and infer trait-like cognitive and motivational properties ...
... Reward dominance Disinhibition is a heteregeneous concept with important links to many forms of psychopathology. The concept has both personality/temperament and cognitive/information processing elements (Nigg, 2000). We define disinhibition and infer trait-like cognitive and motivational properties ...
ptec 155 – developmental disabilities module
... time. If you stop reinforcing, the behavior will also stop. But, if you gradually space out the reinforcer, the behavior will be maintained for long periods of time with only occasional reinforcement. So, as soon as the behavior has been learned, begin to gradually space out the reinforcers. ...
... time. If you stop reinforcing, the behavior will also stop. But, if you gradually space out the reinforcer, the behavior will be maintained for long periods of time with only occasional reinforcement. So, as soon as the behavior has been learned, begin to gradually space out the reinforcers. ...
LEARninG - numerons
... conditioned reflex. Classically conditioned responses have traditionally been characterized as reflexes and are said to be elicited (drawn forth) because most of them are relatively automatic or involuntary. However, research in recent decades has demonstrated that classical conditioning is involved i ...
... conditioned reflex. Classically conditioned responses have traditionally been characterized as reflexes and are said to be elicited (drawn forth) because most of them are relatively automatic or involuntary. However, research in recent decades has demonstrated that classical conditioning is involved i ...
CENTRAL TEXAS COLLEGE
... o Covert – private events – are not observable to others 2. Identify the historical roots of behavior modification • Major Figures o Ivan P. Pavlov (1849 – 1936) – respondent conditioning o Edward L. Thorndike (1874 – 1949) – Law of Effect – a behavior that produces a favorable effect on the environ ...
... o Covert – private events – are not observable to others 2. Identify the historical roots of behavior modification • Major Figures o Ivan P. Pavlov (1849 – 1936) – respondent conditioning o Edward L. Thorndike (1874 – 1949) – Law of Effect – a behavior that produces a favorable effect on the environ ...
Guided Notes
... Using extinction to refer to any decrease in behavior Some use the term extinction when referring to any _____________ response performance, regardless of what produced the behavior change. Labeling any reduction in behavior that reaches a zero rate of occurrence as _____________ is a common misuse ...
... Using extinction to refer to any decrease in behavior Some use the term extinction when referring to any _____________ response performance, regardless of what produced the behavior change. Labeling any reduction in behavior that reaches a zero rate of occurrence as _____________ is a common misuse ...
Behavior Analysis, Relational Frame Theory, and the Challenge of
... are speaking about. RFT researchers have provided several lines of evidence that support this claim and year after year more data come in. To our knowledge, there has not yet been a sour note in the data that have been generated on this point so far. It should not be easy for behavior analysts to di ...
... are speaking about. RFT researchers have provided several lines of evidence that support this claim and year after year more data come in. To our knowledge, there has not yet been a sour note in the data that have been generated on this point so far. It should not be easy for behavior analysts to di ...
Journal of Animal Behavior Technology
... Pryor brought to clicker training through the publication of her book Don’t Shoot the Dog, many people use shaping to teach their dogs and other animals. Shaping is, of course, a unique feature of Skinner's operant conditioning that sets it apart from other behavioral learning theories that assume w ...
... Pryor brought to clicker training through the publication of her book Don’t Shoot the Dog, many people use shaping to teach their dogs and other animals. Shaping is, of course, a unique feature of Skinner's operant conditioning that sets it apart from other behavioral learning theories that assume w ...
RFT - Association for Contextual Behavioral Science
... Pliance and tracking are two types of rule-governed Behavior controlled by rules that specify a behavior and a consequence. They are differentiated from each other based on differerent kinds of reinforcement history. Augmenting is a kind of ”add on” to the two basic ones, and works by affecting the ...
... Pliance and tracking are two types of rule-governed Behavior controlled by rules that specify a behavior and a consequence. They are differentiated from each other based on differerent kinds of reinforcement history. Augmenting is a kind of ”add on” to the two basic ones, and works by affecting the ...
Ch 6: Learning
... psychology of his time, which he saw as being hopelessly mired in speculation about subjective mental life (Todes, 1997). Pavlov and the hundreds of student researchers who passed through Pavlov’s Russian research “factory” were famous for their work on the digestive system, for which Pavlov eventua ...
... psychology of his time, which he saw as being hopelessly mired in speculation about subjective mental life (Todes, 1997). Pavlov and the hundreds of student researchers who passed through Pavlov’s Russian research “factory” were famous for their work on the digestive system, for which Pavlov eventua ...
Including physiological data in a science of behavior: A
... Schaal (2003) stated that the identification of such mechanisms might aid in solving some “persistent puzzles of behavior” (p. 96). Research on the identification of brain substrates modified by reinforcement can be considered of conceptual advantage to behavior analysis (Donahoe, 2003; Stein, Xue, ...
... Schaal (2003) stated that the identification of such mechanisms might aid in solving some “persistent puzzles of behavior” (p. 96). Research on the identification of brain substrates modified by reinforcement can be considered of conceptual advantage to behavior analysis (Donahoe, 2003; Stein, Xue, ...
The Behavior of Organisms?
... confined to ''the behavior of organisms" (cf. Skinner, 1938). This should not be surprising, given that it was questions about the properties of selfcontained , biologically bounded individuals (e.g. , consciousness) that provided the impetus for psychological inquiry at the outset. Interestingly, h ...
... confined to ''the behavior of organisms" (cf. Skinner, 1938). This should not be surprising, given that it was questions about the properties of selfcontained , biologically bounded individuals (e.g. , consciousness) that provided the impetus for psychological inquiry at the outset. Interestingly, h ...
Historical Evolution of the Field of Conditioning and Learning
... lawful. Human voluntary behavior was thought to be caused by the mind, a transcendent thing which did not follow natural laws. It’s important to note that there have never been any observations which have supported this view. In all likelihood, Descartes had this view so that the then current Judeo- ...
... lawful. Human voluntary behavior was thought to be caused by the mind, a transcendent thing which did not follow natural laws. It’s important to note that there have never been any observations which have supported this view. In all likelihood, Descartes had this view so that the then current Judeo- ...
PPT
... • in escape conditioning, a behavior eliminates an aversive stimulus • escape can maintain both adaptive and maladaptive behaviors • extinction can eliminate maladaptive escape responses • negatively reinforcing behaviors that are incompatible with the maladaptive response can eliminate an escape re ...
... • in escape conditioning, a behavior eliminates an aversive stimulus • escape can maintain both adaptive and maladaptive behaviors • extinction can eliminate maladaptive escape responses • negatively reinforcing behaviors that are incompatible with the maladaptive response can eliminate an escape re ...
DEPARTMENT OF BEHAVIOURAL SCIENCES B.SC (HUMAN
... economics, law, psychology, criminology, and social psychology. • Recently however, the term behavioral science suggests ...
... economics, law, psychology, criminology, and social psychology. • Recently however, the term behavioral science suggests ...
Animal Behavior
... In operant conditioning, an animal learns to associate its response to a stimulus with a reward or a punishment. (positive and negative associations) For example, when a bird eats a butterfly that tastes bad, it associates the color of the butterfly with the taste and avoids all butterflies of t ...
... In operant conditioning, an animal learns to associate its response to a stimulus with a reward or a punishment. (positive and negative associations) For example, when a bird eats a butterfly that tastes bad, it associates the color of the butterfly with the taste and avoids all butterflies of t ...
Handout 1
... The behavior of answering a simple question about one's past, however, seems to defy explanation in terms of these familiar principles. When asked, "What did you have for breakfast yesterday?" we reply with ease, "Scrambled eggs." So commonplace is the phenomenon that, at first, there seems to be no ...
... The behavior of answering a simple question about one's past, however, seems to defy explanation in terms of these familiar principles. When asked, "What did you have for breakfast yesterday?" we reply with ease, "Scrambled eggs." So commonplace is the phenomenon that, at first, there seems to be no ...
Settling The Stimulus-Substitution Issue Is A Prerequisite For Sound
... Turkkan's paper, whereas many of the commentaries seem to have been written from an organism-based viewpoint. For example, an important theme of the target article appears to be the search for laws relating behavior to prior stimulus correlations (cf. the "litmus tests" 1-6, p. 123): This theme defi ...
... Turkkan's paper, whereas many of the commentaries seem to have been written from an organism-based viewpoint. For example, an important theme of the target article appears to be the search for laws relating behavior to prior stimulus correlations (cf. the "litmus tests" 1-6, p. 123): This theme defi ...
B. F. Skinner

Burrhus Frederic Skinner (March 20, 1904 – August 18, 1990), commonly known as B. F. Skinner, was an American psychologist, behaviorist, author, inventor, and social philosopher. He was the Edgar Pierce Professor of Psychology at Harvard University from 1958 until his retirement in 1974.Skinner considered free will an illusion and human action dependent on consequences of previous actions. If the consequences are bad, there is a high chance that the action will not be repeated; if the consequences are good, however, the actions that led to it will become more probable. Skinner called this the principle of reinforcement.Skinner called the use of reinforcement to strengthen behavior operant conditioning, and he considered the rate of response to be the most effective measure of response strength. To study operant conditioning he invented the operant conditioning chamber, also known as the Skinner Box, and to measure rate he invented the cumulative recorder. Using these tools he and C. B. Ferster produced his most influential experimental work, which appeared in the book Schedules of Reinforcement.Skinner developed a philosophy of science that he called radical behaviorism, and founded a school of experimental research psychology—the experimental analysis of behavior. He imagined the application of his ideas to the design of a human community in his utopian novel Walden Two, and his analysis of human behavior culminated in his work Verbal Behavior.Skinner was a prolific author who published 21 books and 180 articles. Contemporary academia considers Skinner a pioneer of modern behaviorism along with John B. Watson and Ivan Pavlov. A June 2002 survey listed Skinner as the most influential psychologist of the 20th century.