The Behavior of Organisms

Skinner, B. F. (1938). The Behavior of Organisms: An Experimental Analysis.

Type

Book

Intellectual base

Review or monograph

Year

1938

Link

https://archive.org/details/behavioroforgani0000skin

Cited from

psychology

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2 citations across 2 artifacts.

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Primes

• Conditioning (Behavioral)
  • Skinner's operant-conditioning paradigm (1938, 1953): pigeon key-pecking in the operant chamber. A hungry pigeon placed in a box with a response key and food hopper learns to peck the key (operant response).

    This sourceAppleton-Century. Foundational operant-conditioning paradigm: the operant chamber, reinforcement schedules, and cumulative-record documentation of response patterns (demonstrated with rats and lever-pressing).

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    Skinner's 1938 book describes the food-reinforced operant chamber, but with rats pressing a lever, not pigeons pecking a key; the pigeon and key detail is not in this source.

    “The operant that I have used is the behavior of pressing downward a small lever.”

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Mechanisms

• Environmental Cue Change
  • This is stimulus control: arranging the surrounding conditions so a cue no longer sets the occasion for the old behavior and a new cue does.

    This sourceExplains stimulus control through discriminative cues that set the occasion for behavior under differential reinforcement.

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• https://www.bfskinner.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/BoO.pdf ×1

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