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Handbook of Operant Behavior
About this book
This classic edition of the Handbook of Operant Behavior presents seminal work in the field of learning and behavior, foreshadowing a new direction for learning research, and presenting many questions that remain unanswered.
Featuring impressive contributions from leading figures across the field—ranging from N. J. Mackintosh from what was to become the cognitive school through Morse, Kelleher, Hutchinson, and Hineline on the neglected topic of aversive control to Blough and Blough on psychophysics to Philip Teitelbaum on behavioral physiology—the book is a must-read for anyone interested in human and animal learning.
In a newly written introduction, J. E. R. Staddon highlights several issues that deserve more attention: how language is learned and syntax evolves, how animals choose, and a new paradigm for the study of learning in general. The book is essential reading for all students and researchers of learning and behavior, and aims to encourage researchers to revisit some of the fascinating behavioral questions raised by the original book.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Half Title
- Series
- Title
- Copyright
- Contents
- Introduction to the Classic Edition
- Acknowledgements
- Contributors
- Introduction
- 1 Levels of Integration of the Operant
- 2 The Operant Revisited
- 3 Pavlovian Control of Operant Behavior
- 4 The Nature of Reinforcing Stimuli
- 5 Schedule-Induced Behavior
- 6 Thermoregulatory Behavior
- 7 Determinants of Reinforcement and Punishment
- 8 Schedules of Reinforcement: The Controlling Variables
- 9 Choice in Concurrent Schedules and a Quantitative Formulation of the Law of Effect
- 10 Conditioned Reinforcement: Schedule Effects
- 11 Conditioned Reinforcement: Choice and Information
- 12 Conditioned Suppression and the Effects of Classical Conditioning on Operant Behavior
- 13 Negative Reinforcement and Avoidance
- 14 By-Products of Aversive Control
- 15 Stimulus Control and Inhibitory Processes
- 16 Stimulus Control: Attentional Factors
- 17 Animal Psychophysics
- 18 Operant Behavioral Pharmacology
- 19 Central Reinforcement: A Bridge Between Brain Function and Behavior
- 20 The Experimental Production of Altered Physiological States: Concurrent and Contingent Behavioral Models
- 21 Procedures for the Acquisition of Syntax
- 22 Toward a Coherent Psychology of Language
- Author Index
- Subject Index