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Equivalence class establishment, expansion, and modification in preschool children

Article Abstract:

Stimulus equivalence, expansion and modification were studied in preschool children who were asked to perform four two-choice match-to-sample conditional discriminations with 10 arbitrary visual stimuli. Two of the 10 stimuli served as the conditional stimuli for six subjects. The same pair of stimuli was the discriminative stimuli for five other children. Results showed that equivalence classes were established with more participants in the second group. Consistent conditional responding was also noted and tests for inclusion of the novel stimuli in the original classes showed expansion.

Psychological aspects, Research, Preschool children, Conditioned response, Conditioned responses, Stimulus compounding

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Operants were never "emitted," feeling is doing, and learning takes only one trial: a review of B.F. Skinner's 'Recent Issues in The Analysis of Behavior.'

Article Abstract:

B.F. Skinner's final compilation of behavioral researches still includes novel insights into behavioral sciences despite his advanced age. The book 'Recent Issues in the Analysis of Behavior' includes theoretical issues and demonstrations on his stance regarding 'feelings' and the 'self' as an active agent. He highlights similarities in thought processes in the histories of species of animals, as well as among human beings. He also presents his pedagogical proposals based on his theories on radical behaviorism and the operant aspects of behavior therapy.

Analysis, Behavioral assessment, Emotions, Bibliography, Operant behavior, Operant conditioning, Self psychology, Self psychology (Psychoanalytic theory)

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Science and human behavior, dualism, and conceptual modification

Article Abstract:

B. F. Skinner in his book rejects the use of mental concepts to explain behavior and suggests how to replace it with a behaviorist explanatory framework. Further, it presents a theory of verbal behavior that integrates the use of mentalistic language in first-person reports of phenomenal experience into a scientific framework.

Behaviourism, Science and Human Behavior (Book)

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