Science and Human Behavior¶
Skinner, B. F. (1953). Science and Human Behavior.
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5 citations across 5 artifacts.
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Primes¶
- Black Box vs. White Box Distinction
- established the theoretical foundations for this domain, and Skinner's 1953 Science and Human Behavior
This sourceLays out the operant-behaviorist program: behavior is predicted and controlled through stimulus-response-consequence relations observed externally, without appeal to internal mental mechanism.
- established the theoretical foundations for this domain, and Skinner's 1953 Science and Human Behavior
- Conditioning (Behavioral)
- In Skinner's framework, a reinforcer is defined functionally — by its effect on response rate — not by hedonistic properties. contingent consequence defines reinforcement functionally: outcome increases response probability when paired with behavior.
This sourceMacmillan. Systematic operant-conditioning framework in which behavior is selected and durably modified by its consequences across species; defines the reinforcer functionally — by its effect on response probability — rather than by hedonic properties. F. Skinner Foundation's authorized full-text PDF.
- In Skinner's framework, a reinforcer is defined functionally — by its effect on response rate — not by hedonistic properties. contingent consequence defines reinforcement functionally: outcome increases response probability when paired with behavior.
- Incentive
- Where there is no design and no feedback into choice, what looks like incentive is really selection or reinforcement — neighbouring patterns with different mechanisms.
This sourceAccount of reinforcement as consequence-history shaping of behavior without deliberation — the neighboring pattern distinguished from incentive's forward-looking payoff calculus.
- Where there is no design and no feedback into choice, what looks like incentive is really selection or reinforcement — neighbouring patterns with different mechanisms.
- Learning
- Learning is the process by which an agent acquires or modifies an internal capability — knowledge, skill, model, or behavior — as a durable result of experience or information, such that the agent's future performance or predictions change, an account that Skinner (1953) develops at length for behavioral capability change and that Bandura (1977) extends to observational acquisition.
This sourceMacmillan. Systematic operant-conditioning framework: behavior is selected and durably modified by its consequences in agents from pigeons through humans. Establishes the experimental program in which experience-driven, capability-changing self-update is the central explanandum, across species and without requiring language or instruction.
- Learning is the process by which an agent acquires or modifies an internal capability — knowledge, skill, model, or behavior — as a durable result of experience or information, such that the agent's future performance or predictions change, an account that Skinner (1953) develops at length for behavioral capability change and that Bandura (1977) extends to observational acquisition.
Mechanisms¶
- Reward Schedule Refresh
- Because the payout is no longer fully anticipated, the same dollars regain motivational bite — associates can't price in a reward they can't predict.
This sourceShows that variable reinforcement schedules make the next payoff unpredictable.
- Because the payout is no longer fully anticipated, the same dollars regain motivational bite — associates can't price in a reward they can't predict.
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