Handbook of Operant Behavior

<p>This classic edition of the <em>Handbook of Operant Behavior</em> presents seminal work in the field of learning and behavior, foreshadowing a new direction for learning research, and presenting many questions that remain unanswered. </p><p>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.</p><p>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.</p> <p>Introduction to the Classic Edition Acknowledgements Contributors <b>Introduction</b> Werner K Honig and J. E. R. Staddon <b>1. Levels of Integration of the Operant</b> Philip Teitelbaum 2<b>. The Operant Revisited</b> George Collier, Edward Hirsch, and Robin Kanarek <b>3.</b> <b>Pavlovian Control of Operant Behavior</b> Barry Schwartz and Elkan Gamzu <b>4.</b> <b>The Nature of Reinforcing Stimuli</b> Philip Dunham <b>5. Schedule-Induced Behavior</b> J. E. R. Staddon <b>6.</b> <b>Thermoregulatory Behavior</b> Evelyn Satinoff and Robert Hendersen <b>7.</b> <b>Determinants of Reinforcement and Punishment</b> W. H. Morse and R. T. Kelleher <b>8.</b> <b>Schedules of Reinforcement: The Controlling Variables</b> Michael Zeiler <b>9.</b> <b>Choice in Concurrent Schedules and a Quantitative Formulation of the Law of Effect</b> Peter de Villiers <b>10. Conditioned Reinforcement: Schedule Effects</b> Lewis Gollub <b>11. Conditioned Reinforcement: Choice and Information</b> Edmund Fantino <b>12. Conditioned Suppression and the Effects of Classical Conditioning on Operant Behavior</b> Derek Blackman <b>13. Negative Reinforcement and Avoidance</b> Philip N. Hineline <b>14. By-Products of Aversive Control</b> R. R. Hutchinson <b>15.</b> <b>Stimulus Control and Inhibitory Processes</b> Mark Rilling <b>16. Stimulus Control: Attentional Factors</b> N. J. Mackintosh <b>17. Animal Psychophysics </b>Donald Blough and Patricia Blough <b>18. Operant Behavioral Pharmacology</b> Travis Thompson and John J. Boren <b>19. Central Reinforcement: A Bridge Between Brain Function and Behavior</b> Gordon Mogenson and Jan Cioé <b>20. The Experimental Production of Altered Psychological States: Concurrent and Contingent Behavioral Models</b> Joseph Brady and Alan Harris <b>21. Procedures for the Acquisition of Syntax </b>George Robinson<b> 22. Toward a Coherent Psychology of Language</b> Evalyn Segal <i>Author Index Subject Index</i> </p>