operants: the selection of behavior

Operants: The Selection of Behavior

Shaping: Differential Reinforcement of Successive Approximations Natural and Artificial Selection in Shaping Shaping as Signal Detection Shaping with Pets and with People

Differentiation and Induction Response Classes Function Versus Topography

Signal-detection contingencies: How they work during shaping.

“Was the response big enough?”

Reinforce Don’t reinforce

“Yes” Hit(True Positive)

False Alarm(False Positive)

“No” Miss(False Negative)

Correct Rejection(True Negative)

Function versus Structurein Self-Injurious Behavior (SIB)

The Structure of Operants

Differential Reinforcement of Temporal OrganizationResponse Sequences: Chains Versus Chunks Mediating Behavior

Variable Behavior

Addendum 10A: The Shaping of Physiological ResponsesAddendum 10B: Maze Learning

Variable Behavior

DRL, DRH, DROand other sorts of DRs

Variable Behavior

Chains versus Chunks

Some kinds of sequences involve environmental stimuli and are necessarily chained (you can’t get into the elevator until the door has opened)

Others go so quickly that there is no time for one response to produce the stimulus for the next (in typing, you don’t wait to see one letter before you type the next one)

Variable Behavior

Porpoises and Novel Behavior

Preference for Variability

Variable Behavior

operants: the selection of behavior

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selection of behaviorshaping

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