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- Cover
- Half Title
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Table of Contents
- Preface
- 1 A Science of Behavior: Perspective, History, and Assumptions
- Science of Behavior
- Behavior Analysis: A Science of Behavior
- Two Types of Conditioning
- Respondent Conditioning
- Operant Conditioning
- Selection as a Causal Process
- Focus On: Behavior Analysis and Neuroscience
- The Evolution of Learning
- The Biological Context of Behavior
- The Selection of Operant Behavior
- Culture and Behavior Analysis
- Focus On: Burrhus Frederic Skinner
- A Brief History of Behavior Analysis
- Ivan Petrovich Pavlov (1849–1936)
- John Broadus Watson (1878–1958)
- Edward Lee Thorndike (1874–1949)
- B. F. Skinner and the Rise of Behavior Analysis
- Science and Behavior: Some Assumptions
- The Private World
- Feelings and Behavior
- Thinking as Behavior
- Focus On: Thinking Aloud About Chess Moves
- Chapter Summary
- Key Words
- On the Web
- Brief Quiz
- 2 The Experimental Analysis of Behavior
- Functional Analysis of Behavior
- Response Functions
- Response Classes
- Functional Analysis of the Environment
- Stimulus Functions
- Stimulus Classes
- Reinforcement Dynamics: Motivating Operations
- Tactics of Behavioral Research
- The Reversal Design and Behavior Analysis
- Single-Subject Research
- Generality and Single-Subject Research
- Assessment of Experimental Control and Behavior Change
- Advanced Section: Perceiving as Behavior
- Perception: The Stroop Effect
- Stroop Effect: A Behavior Analysis
- The Effect of the World on What We See
- Focus On: Perception, Signal Detection, and the Payoff Matrix
- Chapter Summary
- Key Words
- On the Web
- Brief Quiz
- 3 Reflexive Behavior and Respondent Conditioning
- Phylogenetic Behavior
- Sequences of Behavior
- Reflexive Behavior
- Laws of the Reflex
- Habituation
- Ontogenetic Behavior
- Respondent Conditioning
- Relative Nature of Stimuli
- Contiguity and Contingency of Stimuli
- Respondent Acquisition
- Conditioned and Unconditioned Responses
- Respondent Extinction
- Spontaneous Recovery
- Respondent Generalization and Discrimination
- Pre-Exposure to Stimuli
- Temporal Relations and Conditioning
- Delayed Conditioning
- Simultaneous Conditioning
- Trace Conditioning
- Backward Conditioning
- Second-Order Respondent Conditioning
- Heroin Overdose and Context
- Conditioned Immunosuppression
- Nuances and Complexities of Respondent Conditioning
- Overshadowing
- Blocking
- Advanced Section: Rescorla–Wagner Model of Conditioning
- The Rescorla–Wagner Equation
- Acquisition
- Extinction
- Chapter Summary
- Key Words
- On the Web
- Brief Quiz
- 4 Reinforcement and Extinction of Operant Behavior
- Operant Behavior
- Discriminative Stimuli
- Contingencies of Reinforcement
- Four Basic Contingencies
- Focus On: Do Rewards Harm Intrinsic Motivation?
- Research Findings and Implications
- Identifying a Reinforcing Stimulus
- Operant Conditioning and the Law of Effect
- Focus On: Behavioral Neuroscience and Operant Conditioning of the Neuron
- Procedures in Operant Conditioning
- A Model Experiment
- Focus On: Reinforcement and Problem Solving
- Reinforcement and Response Stereotypy
- Reinforcement and Response Variability
- Reinforcement and Problem Solving: An Assessment
- Extinction
- Behavioral Side Effects of Extinction
- Resistance to Extinction
- Extinction and Forgetting
- Chapter Summary
- Key Words
- On the Web
- Brief Quiz
- 5 Schedules of Reinforcement
- Importance of Schedules of Reinforcement
- Behavior Analysis: A Progressive Science
- Cumulative Records
- Schedules and Patterns of Response
- Schedules and Natural Contingencies
- Simple Schedules of Positive Reinforcement
- Continuous Reinforcement
- Intermittent Schedules of Reinforcement: Ratio and Interval
- Ratio (Response-Based) Schedules
- Interval (or Time-Based) Schedules
- Focus On: Generality of Schedule Effects
- Variable Interval
- Basic Schedules and Biofeedback
- Progressive-Ratio Schedules
- Progressive-Ratio Schedules and Neuroscience
- Schedule Performance in Transition
- Advanced Section: Schedule Performance
- Rate of Response on Schedules
- Postreinforcement (Preratio) Pause on Fixed Schedules
- Chapter Summary
- Key Words
- On the Web
- Brief Quiz
- 6 Aversive Control of Behavior
- Aversive Control in Everyday Life
- Aversive Control, Elephants, and Bees
- Aversive Control of Human Behavior
- Contingencies of Punishment
- Positive Punishment
- Negative Punishment
- Conditions that Influence Punishment Effectiveness
- Use of Punishment in Treatment
- The Punishment Debate
- Permanence of Punishment
- Focus On: Physical Punishment and Psychiatric Disorders
- Contingencies of Negative Reinforcement
- Escape Learning
- Focus On: Escape and Infant Caregiving
- Avoidance Learning
- Nondiscriminated (Sidman) Avoidance
- Aversive Stimulus Frequency and Avoidance Behavior
- Avoidance as Impending Doom
- Timeout from Avoidance
- Side Effects of Aversive Procedures
- Behavioral Persistence by the Punisher
- Learned Helplessness
- Aggression: A Prominent Side Effect
- Social Disruption as a Side Effect
- Chapter Summary
- Key Words
- On the Web
- Brief Quiz
- 7 Operant–Respondent Interrelations: The Biological Context of Conditioning
- Analysis of Operant–Respondent Contingencies
- Embedded Respondent Contingencies
- Contingencies and Species-Specific Behavior
- Embedded Operant Contingencies
- The Biological Context of Conditioning
- Taste Aversion Learning
- Focus On: Taste Aversion, Neural Activity, and Drug Cravings
- Taste Conditioning Induced by Physical Activity
- Experimental Analysis of Adjunctive Behavior
- Adjunctive Behavior in Humans
- The Nature of Adjunctive Behavior
- Advanced Section: Autoshaping as Operant–Respondent Interrelationships
- Negative Automaintenance
- Autoshaping: Operant–Respondent Interrelationships
- Chapter Summary
- Key Words
- On the Web
- Brief Quiz
- Note
- 8 Stimulus Control
- Differential Reinforcement and Discrimination
- Stimulus Control as a Three-Term Contingency
- Stimulus Control of Behavior Sequences
- Social Referencing and Behavior Chains
- Stimulus Control and Multiple Schedules
- Multiple Schedules: The Discrimination Index
- Focus On: Discrimination and the “Bird-Brained” Pigeon
- Multiple Schedules and Behavioral Contrast
- Behavioral Contrast: Relative Rates of Reinforcement
- Generalization
- Aspects of Stimulus Generalization
- Absolute and Relative Stimulus Control
- Errorless Discrimination and Fading
- Errorless Discrimination
- Fading of Stimulus Control
- Complex Stimulus Control
- Matching to Sample: Identity Training
- Behavior Analysis of Remembering and Forgetting
- Delayed Matching to Sample and Remembering
- Reverse Forgetting: Control of Retroactive Interference
- Focus On: Concept Formation in Pigeons
- Conditional Discrimination
- Chapter Summary
- Key Words
- On the Web
- Brief Quiz
- Notes
- 9 Choice and Preference
- Experimental Analysis of Choice and Preference
- The Choice Paradigm
- The Matching Relation
- Proportional Matching
- Matching Time on an Alternative
- Matching on More Than Two Alternatives
- Extensions of the Matching Relation
- The Generality of Matching
- Matching and Human Communication
- Practical Implications of the Matching Relation
- Matching on Single-Operant Schedules
- Experimental Evidence for the Hyperbolic Curve
- Choice, Foraging, and PREFERENCE FOR CHOICE
- Optimal Foraging, Matching, and Melioration
- Preference for Choice
- Behavioral Economics, Choice, and Addiction
- Substitutability, Demand, and Substance Use
- Focus On: Activity Anorexia and Substitutability of Food and Physical Activity
- Delay Discounting of Reinforcement Value
- Hyperbolic Discounting Equation
- Delay Discounting Applications: Drug Abuse, Gambling, and Obesity
- Delay Discounting: Trait or State?
- Self-Control, Preference Reversal, and Commitment
- Advanced Section: Quantification of Choice and the Generalized Matching Relation
- Sources of Error in Matching Experiments
- Matching of Ratios
- The Power Law
- Bias
- Sensitivity
- Estimating Bias and Sensitivity
- Experiments and Log-Linear Estimates
- Chapter Summary
- Key Words
- On the Web
- Brief Quiz
- Note
- 10 Conditioned Reinforcement
- Chain Schedules and Conditioned Reinforcement
- Multiple-Stimulus Functions
- Homogeneous and Heterogeneous Chains
- Focus On: Backward Chaining
- Conditioned Reinforcement: Determinants and Analysis
- Effectiveness of Conditioned Reinforcement
- Experimental Analysis of Conditioned Reinforcement
- Information and Conditioned Reinforcement
- Information Value: Good News and Bad News
- Information, Reinforcement, and Human Observing Behavior
- Delay Reduction and Conditioned Reinforcement
- Concurrent-Chain Schedules of Reinforcement
- Delay Reduction and Concurrent-Chain Schedules
- Generalized Conditioned Reinforcement
- Generalized Social Reinforcement
- Tokens, Money, and Generalized Reinforcement
- Advanced Section: Quantification and Delay Reduction
- Experimental Test of Delay Reduction
- Chapter Summary
- Key Words
- On the Web
- Brief Quiz
- 11 Correspondence Relations: Imitation and Rule-Governed Behavior
- Correspondence and Human Behavior
- Correspondence and Spontaneous Imitation
- Imitation in the Laboratory
- Spontaneous and Delayed Imitation in Pigeons
- Analysis of Epstein’s Experiments
- Infant Imitation Research
- Spontaneous Imitation by Newborn Infants
- Delayed Imitation by Human Infants
- Correspondence and Intermodal Mapping
- A Behavior Analysis of Spontaneous and Delayed Imitation
- Correspondence, Generalized Imitation, and Observational Learning
- Operant Imitation and Generalized Imitation
- Experiments on Generalized Imitation with Human Infants
- Complex Observational Learning
- Focus On: Rules, Observational Learning, and Self-Efficacy
- Rule-Governed Behavior
- Rule-Governed and Contingency-Shaped Behavior
- Focus On: Instructions and Contingencies
- Rules as Function-Altering Events
- Following Rules and Joint Control
- Chapter Summary
- Key Words
- On the Web
- Brief Quiz
- 12 Verbal Behavior
- Language and Verbal Behavior
- Focus On: Speaking and Evolution of the Vocal Apparatus
- Verbal Behavior: Some Basic Distinctions
- The Range of Verbal Behavior
- Speaking, Listening, and the Verbal Community
- Social Use of Words in a Verbal Community
- Operant Functions of Verbal Behavior
- Functional Operant Units: Manding and Tacting
- Research on Verbal Behavior: Manding and Tacting
- Training of Verbal Operants
- Functional Independence of Basic Verbal Classes
- Additional Verbal Relations: Intraverbals, Echoics, Textuals, and Autoclitics
- Intraverbal Relations
- Echoic Relations
- Textual Relations
- Autoclitic Relations
- Focus On: Higher-Order Verbal Classes and the Naming Relation
- Symbolic Behavior and Stimulus Equivalence
- Basic Equivalence Relations
- Experimental Analysis of Equivalence Relations
- Reflexivity
- Symmetry
- Transitivity
- Research on Equivalence Relations
- Stimulus Equivalence and Application
- Relational Frames
- Advanced Section: A Formal Analysis of Mand and Tact Relations
- Chapter Summary
- Brief Quiz
- 13 Applied Behavior Analysis
- Characteristics of Applied Behavior Analysis
- Concentration on Research
- Behavior Is the Primary Focus
- The Importance of Conditioning
- ABA in Reducing Challenging Behavior
- Direct Behavior Change
- Programming for Generality
- Focus on the Social Environment
- Research Strategies in Applied Behavior Analysis
- Multiple Baseline Designs
- Issues of Measurement in Applied Behavior Analysis
- Recording Behavior
- Reliability of Observations
- Contingency Management and Substance Use Disorders
- Reinforcement of Abstinence
- Cessation of Smoking During Pregnancy
- Evaluation of Contingency Management and Substance Use Disorders
- Contingency Management and Online Resources
- Behavior Analysis in Education
- A Personalized System of Instruction
- Precision Teaching
- Applications of Behavior Principles: Self-Control and Autism
- Training Self-Control
- Behavior Analysis in the Treatment of Autism
- Behavior Analytic Early Intervention Approaches to Autism
- Overview of the Behavior ANALYST Certification Board
- Video Modeling, Mobile Technology, and Autism
- Behavioral Treatment and Prevention: The Problem of Obesity
- The Obesity Crisis
- Behavior Management of the Obesity Crisis
- Focus On: Conditioned Overeating and Childhood Obesity
- Chapter Summary
- Key Words
- On the Web
- Brief Quiz
- 14 Three Levels of Selection: Evolution, Behavior, and Culture
- Level 1: Evolution and Natural Selection
- Contingencies of Survival
- Phenotype, Genotype, and Environment
- Sources of Genetic Variation
- Genetic Regulation of Behavior
- Behavioral Rigidity
- Focus On: Genetic Control of a Fixed-Action Pattern
- Behavioral Flexibility (Learning)
- Level 2: Behavioral Selection by Reinforcement
- Evolution and Behavioral Dynamics
- Selection for Operant Processes
- Focus On: Operant Regulation in the Marine Snail, Aplysia
- Operant Selection and Extinction
- Susceptibility to Reinforcement
- Evolution, Reinforcement, and Verbal Behavior
- Social Signals
- Vocal and Speech Sounds
- Verbal Behavior
- Level 3: Selection and Evolution of Culture
- Cultural Practice
- Metacontingencies and Cultural Practices
- Focus On: Macrocontingency, Depleting Resources, and Costly Use of Punishment
- Experimental Analysis of Resource Management
- Effects of Communication and Costly Use of Punishment
- Origin, Transmission, and Evolution of Cultural Practices
- Cultural Evolution
- Chapter Summary
- Key Words
- On the Web
- Brief Quiz
- Glossary
- References
- Author index
- Subject index
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