Elementary principles of behavior /

Malott, Richard W.

Elementary principles of behavior / Richard W. Malott, Donald L. Whaley, Maria E. Malott. - 2nd edition - Englewood Cliffs, N.J. : Prentice Hall, c1993. - ix, 468 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.


CONTENT


1. The reinforcer

2. Reinforcement

3. Escape

4. Punishment

5. Penalty

6. Extinction and recovery

7. Differential reinforcement and punishment

8. Shaping

9. Unlearned reinforcers and aversive conditions

10. Special establishing operations

11. Learned reinforcers and aversive conditions

12. Discrimination

13. Generalization and concept training

14. Imitation

15. Avoidance

16. Punishment by prevention

17. Ratio schedules

18. Time dependent schedules

19. Concurrent contingencies

20. Stimulus-response chains and rate contingencies

21. Respondent conditioning

22. Analogs to reinforcement Part I.

23. Analogs to reinforcement Part II.

24. A theory of rule-governed behavior

25. Pay for performance

26. Moral and legal control

27. Maintetnance

28. Transfer

29. Research methods



Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

0132602415 9780132602419

92008309


Psychology.
Operant behavior.

150 / MAL