Principles of behavior - Malott, Richard W.; Trojan, Elizabeth A. (Upper Saddle River, N.J. Pearson/Prentice Hall, 2004)
The reinforcer -- Reinforcement -- Escape -- Punishment -- Penalty -- Extinction and recovery -- Differential reinforcement and punishment -- Shaping -- Unlearned reinforcers and aversive conditions -- Special establishing operations -- Learned reinforcers and aversive conditions -- Discrimination -- Complex stimulus control -- Imitation -- Avoidance -- Punishment by prevention -- Ratio schedules -- Time-dependent schedules -- Concurrent contingencies -- Behavioral chains and rate contingencies -- Respondent conditioning -- Analogs to reinforcement and avoidance, part i -- Analogs to reinforcement and avoidance, part ii -- A theory of rule-governed behavior -- Pay for performance -- Moral and legal control -- Maintenance -- Transfer -- Research methods -- Jobs and grad school.
Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Keywords: Operant behavior; Psychology