Author: Mark SnowPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Discrimination learning
Languages : en
Pages : 70
Book Description
Effects of Omission, Extinction, and Change-over-delay Training Procedures on Free Operant Discrimination Performance
Author: Mark SnowPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Discrimination learning
Languages : en
Pages : 70
Book Description
Animal Learning & Behavior
Author: Communications in Behavioral Biology
Author: Extinction in Discrimination Learning
Author: Miriam CohenPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Learning
Languages : en
Pages : 31
Book Description
The purpose of the study was to assess the effects of two methods of stimulus presentation (fading and constant) and two response contingencies (delay and no-delay) on the course of discrimination learning; and to examine the effects of response histories on various aspects of discrimination performance. In the fading procedure S- was gradually faded along the dimensions of brightness and time, and in the constant procedure S- maintained a constant value throughout training. Subjects trained with the constant procedure made significantly more S- responses in the course of acquisition than subjects trained with the fading procedure. In the constant-delay procedure, S- responses were followed by a delay in the offset of S-. In the constant-no-delay procedure S- responses were followed by an intertrial interval. Subjects trained with the constant-no-delay procedure made significantly more responses to S- than subjects trained with the constant-delay procedure. The amount of extinction which occurred during learning was highly correlated with intertrial responding and the stability of the learned discrimination. Discrimination reversal learning was also a function of original learning history. The results were discussed in terms of the differential processes which underlie discriminative performance when different training procedures are used. (Author).
Schedules of Reinforcement
Author: B. F. SkinnerPublisher: B. F. Skinner Foundation
ISBN: 0989983951
Category : Psychology
Languages : en
Pages : 794
Book Description
The contingent relationship between actions and their consequences lies at the heart of Skinner’s experimental analysis of behavior. Particular patterns of behavior emerge depending upon the contingencies established. Ferster and Skinner examined the effects of different schedules of reinforcement on behavior. An extraordinary work, Schedules of Reinforcement represents over 70,000 hours of research primarily with pigeons, though the principles have now been experimentally verified with many species including human beings. At first glance, the book appears to be an atlas of schedules. And so it is, the most exhaustive in existence. But it is also a reminder of the power of describing and explaining behavior through an analysis of measurable and manipulative behavior-environment relations without appealing to physiological mechanisms in the brain. As en exemplar and source for the further study of behavioral phenomena, the book illustrates the scientific philosophy that Skinner and Ferster adopted: that a science is best built from the ground up, from a firm foundation of facts that can eventually be summarized as scientific laws.
The Effects of Four Instructional Procedures on Free Operant Discrimination and Discrimination Reversal in Retardates
Author: Otis Elworth RamseyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Learning, Psychology of
Languages : en
Pages : 108
Book Description
Cumulated Index Medicus
Author: Cumulative Subject Index to Psychological Abstracts
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Psychological abstracts
Languages : en
Pages : 758
Book Description
Handbook of Operant Behavior
Author: Werner K. HonigPublisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 1000528871
Category : Psychology
Languages : en
Pages : 710
Book Description
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.
APA Handbook of Behavior Analysis
Author: Gregory J. MaddenPublisher:
ISBN: 9781433811135
Category : Behaviorism (Psychology)
Languages : en
Pages : 607
Book Description