- B. F. Skinner Foundation
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The B. F. Skinner Foundation was established in 1987 to publish significant literary and scientific works in the analysis of behavior and to educate both professionals and the public about the science of behavior.
URL: http://www.bfskinner.org/
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- Behaviorism Tutorial
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Behaviorism is generally characterized as the viewpoint holding that the appropriate subject matter for psychology is behavior and the appropriate methods for psychology are those of the natural sciences. The objective of this tutorial is to
promote an understanding of the differences between two of these forms of behaviorism - methodological behaviorism and radical behaviorism.
URL: http://psych.athabascau.ca/html/Behaviorism/
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- Dynamics in the Fine Structure of Schedule-Controlled Behavior
The variability in the behavioral equilibrium established by six basic schedules was characterized. The measures were the pause preceding the first response in each interreinforcement interval; the mean rate of responding in each interreinforcement interval; and the relative frequency of each interresponse time. A display of individual interresponse times as a function of time in the interreinforcement interval indicated clear recurrent responding at somewhat less than 3 Hz in every bird, even after extended exposure to a schedule and regardless of the contingency.
URL: http://www.jsu.edu/depart/psychology/sebac/fac-sch/dynamics/dynamics.html
(Added: 4-Jun-2000 Hits: 1942)
- Mathematical Principles of Reinforcement
Effective conditioning requires a correlation between the experimenter's definition of a response and an organism's, but an animal's perception of its behavior differs from ours. Various definitions of the response are explored experimentally using the slopes of learning curves to infer which comes closest to the organism's definition. The resulting exponentially weighted moving average provides a model of memory which grounds a quantitative theory of reinforcement in which incentives excite behavior and focus the excitement on the responses present in memory at the same time.
URL: http://www.bbsonline.org/documents/a/00/00/05/32/bbs00000532-00/bbs.killeen.html
(Added: 12-Jul-2000 Hits: 2045)
- Memetics
Cultural evolution, including the evolution of knowledge, can be modelled through the same basic principles of variation and selection that underly biological evolution. This implies a shift from genes as units of biological information to a new type of units of cultural information: memes. A meme is a cognitive or behavioral pattern that can be transmitted from one individual to another one.
URL: http://pespmc1.vub.ac.be/MEMES.html
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- Schedules of Reinforcement
In the Skinner-box it is possible to change the contingency between the responses and the delivery of reinforcement so that more than one response may be required in order to obtain the reward. A whole range of rules can govern the contingency between responses and reinforcement - these different types of rules are referred to as schedules of reinforcement.
URL: http://www.brembs.net/operant/schedule.html
(Added: 21-Sep-1999 Hits: 2475)
- Subjective Behavior Analysis
Q methodology was developed in the 1930s and has become increasingly utilized as a means for examining subjective
behavior in a rigorous and naturalistic way. One of the advantages of Q methodology is its utility in examining single cases, which,
when conjoined with the mathematics of factor analysis, reveals parallels with quantum theory.
URL: http://facstaff.uww.edu/cottlec/QArchive/Aba99.htm
(Added: 21-Sep-1999 Hits: 2413)
- The Operant Conditioning of Human Motor Behavior
This paper reports procedures for the direct application of the variables defining the paradigm for operant conditioning to human behavior and shows that human beings act very much indeed
like experimental animals when they are subjected to the same exper imental treatments. It suggests that direct application of conditioning principles to some categories of human behavior
may be justified. The procedures are simple and they may be followed by anyone, with a minimum of equipment.
URL: http://cogprints.org/604/0/biblio25.html
(Added: 9-Dec-1998 Hits: 2487)
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