Behavior analysis and learning / W. David Pierce, Carl D. Cheney.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 369-406) and indexes.

Foreword / Philip N. Hineline -- 1. A Science of Behavior: Perspective, History, and Assumptions -- Science and behavior -- New directions: Behavior analysis and neuroscience -- Focus on: B. F. Skinner -- A brief history of behavior analysis -- Science and behavior: Some assumptions -- 2. The Experimental Analysis of Behavior -- Functional analysis of behavior -- Functional analysis of the environment -- Tactics of behavioral research -- Focus on: Operant baselines and behavioral neuroscience -- Single-subject research -- Focus on: Assessment of behavior change -- Advanced section: Perceiving as behavior -- 3. Reflexive Behavior and Respondent Conditioning -- Phylogenetic behavior -- Ontogenetic behavior -- Temporal relations and conditioning -- Second-order respondent conditioning -- On the applied side: Drug use, abuse, and complexities of respondent conditioning -- Note on: Physiology and the control of preparatory responses by conditioned stimuli -- Advanced section: Complex conditioning -- Aspects of complex conditioning -- The Rescorla-Wagner model of conditioning -- Focus on: The Rescorla-Wagner equation -- 4. Reinforcement and Extinction of Operant Behavior -- Operant behavior -- Focus on: Rewards and intrinsic motivation -- Operant conditioning -- Focus on: Behavioral neuroscience and operant conditioning of the neuron -- Focus on: Reinforcement and problem solving -- Extinction -- Note on: Remembering and recalling -- On the applied side: Extinction of temper tantrums -- 5. Schedules of Reinforcement -- Importance of schedules of reinforcement -- C. B. Ferster: Schedules of reinforcement -- Focus on: Science and behavior analysis -- Comment on: Inner causes, schedules, and response patterns -- Focus on: A system of notation -- Schedules of positive reinforcement -- Ratio and interval schedules of reinforcement -- Focus on: Generality of schedule effects -- Note on: VI schedules, reinforcement rate, and behavioral momentum -- Schedule performance in transition -- On the applied side: Schedules and cigarettes -- Advanced section: Schedule performance -- 6. Aversive Control of Behavior -- Contingencies of punishment -- Quick tip: Procedures to reduce rate of response -- Focus on: Use of punishment in treatment -- Contingencies of negative reinforcement -- Focus on: An analysis of avoidance behavior -- Side effects of aversive procedures -- Focus on: Social defeat, aversion to social contact, and behavioral neuroscience -- On the applied side: Coercion and its fallout -- Note on: The definition of coercion -- 7. Operant-Respondent Interrelationships and the Biological Context of Conditioning -- Analysis of operant-respondent contingencies -- Note on: Operants and respondents -- The biological context of conditioning -- Focus on: Behavioral neuroscience, taste aversion, and urges for addictive behavior -- On the applied side: Activity anorexia and interrelations between eating and physical activity -- Advanced section: The nature of autoshaped responses -- 8. Stimulus Control -- Differential reinforcement and discrimination -- Focus on: Stimulus control, neuroscience, and what birds see -- Stimulus control and multiple schedules -- Focus on: Discrimination and the "bird-brained" pigeon -- Focus on: Determinants of behavioral contrast -- Generalization -- Errorless discrimination and fading -- Complex stimulus control -- Focus on: Concept formation by pigeons -- On the applied side: The pigeon as a quality control inspector -- 9. Choice and Preference -- Experimental analysis of choice and preference -- The matching law -- Choice, foraging, and behavioral economics -- Focus on: Activity anorexia and substitutability of food and wheel running -- Matching and single-operant schedules of reinforcement -- On the applied side: Application of the quantitative law of effect -- Advanced section: Quantification of choice and generalized matching -- Focus on behavioral neuroscience, matching, and sensitivity -- 10. Conditioned Reinforcement -- Note on: Clicker training -- Chain schedules and conditioned reinforcement -- Focus on: Backward chaining -- Determinants of conditioned reinforcement -- Focus on: Behavioral neuroscience and conditioned reinforcement -- Delay reduction and conditioned reinforcement -- Generalized conditioned reinforcement -- On the applied side: The token economy -- Advanced section: Quantification and delay reduction -- 11. Correspondence Relations: Imitation and Rule-Governed Behavior -- Correspondence and observational learning -- Focus on: Behavioral neuroscience, mirror neurons, and imitation -- On the applied side: Training generalized imitation -- Focus on: Rules, observational learning, and self-efficacy -- Rule-governed behavior -- Focus on: Instructions and contingencies -- Focus on: Following rules and joint control -- 12. Verbal Behavior -- Language and verbal behavior -- Focus on: Speaking and evolution of the vocal tract -- Verbal behavior: Some basic distinctions -- Operant functions of verbal behavior -- Research on verbal behavior -- Additional verbal relations: Intraverbals, echoics, and textuals -- Analysis of complex behavior in the laboratory -- Focus on: Reports of private events by pigeons -- Symbolic behavior and stimulus equivalence -- Focus on: Behavioral neuroscience and derived conceptual relations -- On the applied side: Three-term contingencies and natural speech -- Advanced section: A formal analysis of manding and tacting -- 13. Applied Behavior Analysis -- Characteristics of applied behavior analysis -- Research in applied behavior analysis -- Focus on: Personalized system of instruction and precision teaching -- Applications of behavior principles -- Focus on: Autism, mirror neurons, and applied behavior analysis -- The causes and prevention of behavior problems -- Focus on: Conditioned overeating and childhood obesity -- On the applied side: MammaCare-detection and prevention of breast cancer -- 14. Three Levels of Selection: Biology, Behavior, and Culture -- Level 1. Evolution and natural selection -- Focus on: Genetic control of a fixed action pattern -- Level 2. Selection by reinforcement -- Level 3. The selection and evolution of culture -- Focus on: Metacontingencies.