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PURCHASING THE BOOK
INSTRUCTIONS FOR SITE USE
1. ORIGINS OF BEHAVIOR
1. Study Questions
2. Sample Syllabus for a one-semester undergraduate or graduate course that focuses on the fundamentals
3. Further discussion of the differences between behavior analysis and normative psychology. (related to The Biobehavioral Approach, p. 10 ff.)
4. Further discussion of the relation between behavior analysis and neuroscience
2. SELECTION OF BEHAVIOR
1. Study Questions
2. Classical and Operant Conditioning: Theoretical Considerations (Skinner’s views contrasted with associationism; related to Conditions Required for Selection by Reinforcement, pp. 39 ff)
3. CS-UR Relations and Their Implications (Research demonstrating that the temporal relation of the CS to the UR, not the US, is the critical relation for conditioning in the classical, or Pavlovian, procedure.
Other Implications of CS-UR relations for temporal encoding and the conditioning of behavior systems (phenomena that are important in associationism and in animal behavior, respectively)
4. Neural Mechanisms of Reinforcement (Why neural mechanisms of reinforcement are important and a description of some of those mechanisms; related to A Biobehavioral principle of Selection by Reinforcement, pp. 54 ff)
5. Historical background and future directions of Selectionism (Why it took so long for Darwin’s approach to be accepted in biology, and why those same factors now impede acceptance of selection by reinforcement in psychology)
6. Videos illustrating how Selection Networks operate
7. Selection-network PowerPoint simulations of several conditioning phenomena
Download the powerpoint presentation in ZIP format
8. Video examples of classical and operant conditioning with related questions
9. Parallels between natural selection and selection by reinforcement
10. An extended treatment of Pavlovian (Classical) conditioning including some implications for applied behavior analysis
11. Implications of the differences between the classical and operant procedures for theory: associationist and biobehavioral approaches
12. A Video describing the theoretical background, findings, and some of the implications of a Unified Reinforcement Principle
13. Autism: The role of acquired reinforcers
3. ENVIRONMENTAL GUIDANCE
1. Study Questions
2. Environmental Guidance Contrasted with S-R Psychology (Operants are contrasted with S-R associations)
3. Generic concepts of stimulus and response (Selection processes produce relations between classes of events, not between fixed entities)
Discussion of fundamental issues in the origin of scientific concepts: selectionism and essentialism
4. Behavioral mixing and IRTs (The generality of behavioral mixing in stimulus generalization and some related technical issues)
4. SELECTION IN EXPERIENCED
1. Study Questions
2. The molar-molecular issue, related to the discussion on p. 110-114
(a) The issue in the Pavlovian procedure prior to the Rescorla-Wagner model from the John Ayres laboratory
(b) The enduring nature of the issue in the operant procedure
3. Acquired reinforcement: Implications for autism
5. CLASSES OF E-B RELATIONS
1. Study Questions
2. Summary of recent efforts to find evidence of equivalence relations in nonhumans (Lionello-DeNolf, K. M. (2009). The search for symmetry: 25 years in review. Learning & Behavior, 37, 188-203.
6. ATTENDING
1. Study Questions
7. PERCEIVING E-E RELATIONS
1. Study Questions
2. Neural mechanisms producing behavioral control by combinations of stimuli--polysensory control
8. REMINDING
1. Study Questions
2. Recent work on reminding (Wright, A. A. (2007). An experimental analysis of memory processing. Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior, 88, 405-433.
9. EXPERIENCED LEARNER
1. Study Questions
2. Priming: Do priming studies reflect fundamental behavioral processes? (BEHAVIORAL EFFECTS OF ACTIVATION PATTERNS, pp. 242 ff.) Is priming a basic behavioral process? (paper by David C. Palmer)
3. Where perception meets memory: A review of repetition priming in vsual search tasks
10. PROBLEM SOLVING
1. Study Guide
11. VERBAL BEHAVIOR
Guide to Supplementary Papers and Links
1. Study Questions
2. Interpreting Verbal Behavior
3. Skinner’s Early Documents On Verbal Behavior
The Hefferline Notes
William James Lectures
4. Chomsky’s Review and Responses to the Review
Influence of MacCorquodale Critique of Skinner’s Verbal Behavior
Reply to Chomsky
Selectionism vs. Essentialism
Chomsky’s Nativism: A Critical Review
5. A Behavior Analytic Interpretation of Grammar
Achieving Parity (Automatic Reinforcement)
Speaker as Listener
What is the Function of Structure?
On Pronouns
6. Multiple Control
7. Atomic Repertoires
8. A critical review of Relational Frame Theory
A response to Hayes and Barnes-Holmes on RFT
On Skinner’s definition of verbal behavior
9. Verbal Behavior and Math and Logic
10. Handbook Chapter on Verbal Behavior
11. On Intraverbal Control and the Definition of the Intraverbal
12. The concept of latent behavior
13. Collateral behavior and grammar
14. On narratives
15. On aesthetics
12. REMEMBERING
Important Notes
1. Study Guide
2. Conditioned perceiving: Its neural basis
3. A comparison of computer models and biobehavioral accounts of memory
4. A behavioral interpretation of memory
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