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Palmer, David C. – Behavior Analyst, 2012
Evolution and reinforcement shape adaptive forms and adaptive behavior through many cycles of blind variation and selection, and therein lie their parsimony and power. Human behavior is distinctive in that this shaping process is commonly "short circuited": Critical variations are induced in a single trial. The processes by which this economy is…
Descriptors: Adjustment (to Environment), Stimuli, Observational Learning, Reinforcement