Behavior systems and reinforcement: an integrative approach

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The cognitive, regulatory and ecological aspects of a behavioral system must be integrated to yield a comprehensive approach to the study of responses to reinforcement. The regulatory and cognitive approaches aid the analysis of any basic aspect of behavior, while the experimental paradigms aid the verification of theories propounded by classical behavioral analysts. British analysts made conjectures on the aspects of reinforcement and American analysts transformed these conjectures into theories with the help of experimental analyses. Behaviorists used incentives as motivating factors in their analyses of the response of experimental models.

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Response acquisition with delayed reinforcement: a comparison of two-lever procedures

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An experiment was conducted on response acquisition with delayed reinforcement by exposing water-depraved experimentally naive rats to resetting delay procedures of 8, 16, 32 or 64 seconds. A reinforcement lever, which would produce water after specified delays, a no-consequence lever and a cancellation lever, which cancels the delivery of water, were used. Some rats had a reinforcement and a no-consequence lever while others had a reinforcement and a cancellation lever. Rats that experienced reinforcement showed more responses to the reinforcement lever than those that did not.

Rats as laboratory animals, Laboratory rats

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James A. Dinsmoor (1921-2005): Questions of science and life

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James A. Dinsmoor, writer and social activist, believed in a mantra called 'never stop asking questions' which is one of the characteristics of any scientist, but he systematically and persistently committed himself to this mantra. He was influential in supporting scholarly and applied communities in experimental psychology and behavior analysis.

United States, Obituary, Political activists, Activists, Social reformers, Reformers, Dinsmoor, James A.

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