Operant Psychology and the Study of Culture

1971 ◽  
Vol 12 (2) ◽  
pp. 171-189 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. A. Jones
Keyword(s):  
Operant Psychology

Medical Applications of Operant Psychology

1978 ◽  
Vol 5 (4) ◽  
pp. 673-687
Author(s):  
THOMAS M. BRYAN ◽  
MICHAEL J. ASKEN ◽  
ARNOLD T. SHIENVOLD
Keyword(s):  
Medical Applications ◽  
Operant Psychology

Positive reinforcement, the matching law and morality

1996 ◽  
Vol 19 (4) ◽  
pp. 587-588
Author(s):  
William A. McKim
Keyword(s):  
Conceptual Framework ◽  
Positive Reinforcement ◽  
Addictive Behavior ◽  
Matching Law ◽  
Control Behavior ◽  
Operant Psychology ◽  
Aversive Events ◽  
Target Article ◽  
Law And Morality

AbstractAddictive behavior has never seemed rational because it persists in spite of drastic aversive consequences. This is a particular problem for models of addiction such as operant psychology which hold that behavior is controlled by its consequences. Inspite of claims to the contrary, Heymans target article illustrates how operant psychology resolves this contradiction. By using the matching law, Heyman suggests a mechanism that explains why delayed aversive events may not control behavior, and a conceptual framework in which we can understand successful therapies.

scholarly journals Operant psychology goes to the fair: Marian and Keller Breland in the popular press, 1947–1966

2005 ◽  
Vol 28 (2) ◽  
pp. 143-159 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robert E. Bailey ◽  
J. Arthur Gillaspy
Keyword(s):  
Popular Press ◽  
Operant Psychology

Evolution and operant behavior, metaphor or theory?

2001 ◽  
Vol 24 (3) ◽  
pp. 545-546
Author(s):  
Frances K. McSweeney ◽  
Kenjiro Aoyama
Keyword(s):  
Operant Behavior ◽  
Operant Psychology

The idea that similar selective processes operate in gene-based evolution, immunology, and operant psychology provides an intuitively appealing metaphor. This idea also isolates questions that operant psychologists should ask and makes some empirical predictions. However, the idea currently lacks the detail needed to precisely separate it from some plausible alternatives. This sort of thinking is the kind that operant psychologists should do if operant theorizing is to survive the competition among ideas.

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