Extinction of operant behavior, which involves terminating the reinforcement contingency
that maintains a response, is important to the development, generalization, and reduction of …

Adjunctive behaviors such as schedule-induced polydipsia are said to be induced by
periodic delivery of incentives, but not reinforced by them. That standard treatment assumes …

This book reviews how people and animals learn and how their behaviors are later changed
as a result of this learning. Nearly all of our behaviors are influenced by prior learning …

A review of recent evidence indicates that contingent reinforcement is neither a necessary
nor a sufficient condition for operant learning. This dilemma reopens the old question of" …

Replication and extension of Skinner's" supersitition" experiment showed the development
of 2 kinds of behavior at asymptote:(a) interim activities, related to adjunctive behavior …

In 6 experiments, a total of 7 pigeons were rewarded if their pattern of 8 pecks to left and
right response keys during the current trial differed from the patterns in each of the last n …

This chapter discusses reinforcement and punishment in the context of reproducible
behavioral processes. The terms reinforcement and punishment are used to refer to the …

Pigeons pecked a response disk to gain access to grain rewards while identical grain was
freely available from a cup within the experimental chamber. Similarly, rats pressed a lever …

Schedules of reinforcement are among the most powerful determinants of behavior. The
effects of each type of schedule are systematic and orderly in individual organisms, and they …

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