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Nieto, Javier; Mason, Tere A.; Bernal-Gamboa, Rodolfo; Uengoer, Metin – Learning & Memory, 2020
In two instrumental conditioning experiments with rats, we examined the impacts of acquisition and extinction cues on ABC renewal of instrumental behavior. Animals were reinforced with food for lever pressing in one context, followed by extinction of the response in a second one. Presentations of a brief tone accompanied extinction in Experiment 1…
Descriptors: Cues, Conditioning, Animals, Animal Behavior
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Kessel, Robert; Lucke, Robert L. – Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior, 2008
Shull, Gaynor and Grimes advanced a model for interresponse time distribution using probabilistic cycling between a higher-rate and a lower-rate response process. Both response processes are assumed to be random in time with a constant rate. The cycling between the two processes is assumed to have a constant transition probability that is…
Descriptors: Statistical Analysis, Probability, Monte Carlo Methods, Simulation
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Barrett, James E. – Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior, 2008
The contributions of Joseph V. Brady to behavioral pharmacology span more than 50 years and range from early studies using the Estes-Skinner ("conditioned emotional response") procedure to examine drug effects and various physiological processes in experimental animals to the implementation of mobile methadone treatment services and to small group…
Descriptors: Pharmacology, Drug Therapy, Behavior Modification, Physiology
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Lejeune, Helga; Richelle, Marc; Wearden, J. H. – Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior, 2006
The article discusses two important influences of B. F. Skinner, and later workers in the behavior-analytic tradition, on the study of animal timing. The first influence is methodological, and is traced from the invention of schedules imposing temporal constraints or periodicities on animals in "The Behavior of Organisms," through the rate…
Descriptors: Animals, Animal Behavior, Behavioral Science Research, Scheduling
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Dinsmoor, James A. – Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior, 2004
The origins of many of the basic concepts used in the experimental analysis of behavior can be traced to Pavlov's (1927/1960) discussion of unconditional and conditional reflexes in the dog, but often with substantial changes in meaning (e.g., stimulus, response, and reinforcement). Other terms were added by Skinner (1938/1991) to describe his…
Descriptors: Stimuli, Operant Conditioning, Etymology, Reinforcement
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Panlilio, Leigh V.; Weiss, Stanley J. – Learning and Motivation, 2005
In earlier studies with rats, the effectiveness of the auditory element of a tone--light discriminative stimulus was enhanced when the conditioned incentive value of the compound was negative rather than positive. The present experiment systematically replicated these results in pigeons trained to press a treadle in the presence of a tone--light…
Descriptors: Learning Modalities, Stimulus Generalization, Psychological Studies, Animal Behavior
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Peterson, Gail B. – Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior, 2004
Despite the seminal studies of response differentiation by the method of successive approximation detailed in chapter 8 of "The Behavior of Organisms" (1938), B. F. Skinner never actually shaped an operant response by hand until a memorable incident of startling serendipity on the top floor of a flour mill in Minneapolis in 1943. That occasion…
Descriptors: Social Environment, Physical Environment, Verbal Stimuli, Behavior Patterns