Textbook: Catania, A. C. (1998). Learning (4th ed.). Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice-Hall.
Click on specific Meeting for assigned readings:
| 1st Meeting: | Introductions and a brief survey of "the ancients," with consideration of what makes them ancient |
| 2nd Meeting: | Basic observations and several ways of talking about them, with recent reviews of the operant-respondent distinction |
| 3rd Meeting: | Open-loop relations -- Evolution and behavior; elicitation, induction, and complex species-typical patterns |
| 4th Meeting: | Closed-loop relations -- selection by consequences as a distinct causal mode |
| 5th Meeting: | Principles and phenomena of Pavlovian conditioning |
| 6th Meeting: | Discrimination and concept formation I |
| 7th Meeting: | Discrimination and concept formation II |
| 8th Meeting: | Intermittent consequences of behavior -- schedules, studies of choice, and behavior synthesis |
| 9th Meeting: | Midterm examination |
| 10th Meeting: | Punishment -- technical versus vernacular definitions |
| 11th Meeting: | Negative reinforcement and avoidance |
| 12th Meeting: | Functional analysis of verbal behavior -- relations between verbal and nonverbal behavior |
| 13th Meeting: | Verbal behavior and nonverbal behavior |
| 14th Meeting: | Social behavior, awareness, problem-solving … … and final words and gestures |
| READING ASSIGNMENTS FOR: | |
| 2nd
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Catania, chapter 1 and most of chapter 21
(pp. 1-28, 366-376) Hineline, P. N. (1980). The language of behavior analysis: Its community, its function, and its limitations. Behaviorism, 8, 67-86 (only pp. 67-71 are required at this point). Hineline, P. N. (1992). A self-interpretive behavior analysis. American Psychologist, 47 (11), pp. 1274-1279, 1283-1284. |
| 3rd
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Catania, chapters 3 and 4 (pp. 29-58) Hineline, P. N. (1986). Re-tuning the operant-respondent distinction. In T. Thompson & M. D. Zeiler (Eds.), Analysis and Integration of Behavioral Units (pp. 55-79). Hillsdale, NJ: Erlbaum. Wetherington, C. L. (1982). Is adjunctive behavior a third class of behavior? Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews, 6, 329-350 (specific pages to be assigned). |
| 4th Meeting: | Catania, chapters 2, 5, and 7 (pp. 13-28,
59-87, 111-127) Dawkins, R. (1981). Selfish genes and selfish memes. In D. R. Hofstadter & D. C. Dennett (Eds.), The Mind's I (pp. 124-144). New York: Basic Books. Gewirtz, J. L., & Peláez-Nogueras, M. (1992). Infants' separation difficulties and distress due to misplaced maternal contingencies. In T. M. Field, P. M. McCabe, & N. Schneiderman (Eds.), Stress and Coping in Infancy and Childhood (pp. 19-46). Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates. Skinner, B. F. (1978). The ethics of helping people. In Reflections on Behaviorism and Society (pp. 33-47). Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall. Skinner, B. F. (1981). Selection by consequences. Science, 213, 501-504. |
| 5th Meeting: | Catania, chapter 12 Brady, J. V., Kelly, D., & Plumlee, L. (1969). Autonomic and behavioral responses of the rhesus monkey to emotional conditioning. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, 159, 959-975. Siegel, S. (1979). The role of conditioning in drug tolerance and addiction. In J. D. Keehn (Ed.), Psychopathology in Animals (pp. 143-168). New York: Academic Press. Schwartz & Robbins. (1995). Pavlovian conditioning: Explanations. In Psychology of Learning and Behavior (pp. 113-125). New York: Norton. |
| 6th Meeting: | Catania, chapter 8 (pp. 128-147) Hackenberg, T. D., & Hineline, P. N. (1987). Discrimination, symbolic behavior, and the origins of awareness. In Currents of Psychology (pp. 1-11). New York: MacMillan. Herrnstein, R. J., Loveland, D. H., & Cable, C. (1976). Natural concepts in pigeons. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Animal Behavior Processes, 2, 285-302. Marcucella, H. (1981). Stimulus control of respondent and operant key pecking: A single key procedure. Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior, 36, 51-60. Touchette, P. E. (1971). Transfer of stimulus control: Measuring the moment of transfer. Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior, 15, 347-354. |
| 7th Meeting: | Catania, chapter 9 (pp. 148-162) Andronis, P. T., Layng, T. V. J., & Goldiamond, I. (1997). Contingency adduction of "symbolic aggression" by pigeons. The Analysis of Verbal Behavior, 14, 5-17. Gewirtz, J. L. (1971). Conditional responding as a paradigm for observational, imitative learning and vicarious reinforcement. In Advances in Child Development and Behavior, Vol. 6 (pp. 273-304). New York: Academic Press Hineline, P. N. (1983). When we speak of knowing. The Behavior Analyst, 6, 183-186. Hineline, P. N., & Wanchisen, B. A. (1989). Correlated hypothesizing and the distinction between contingency-shaped and rule-governed behavior. In S. C. Hayes (Ed.), Rule-governed Behavior: Cognition, Contingencies, and Instructional Control (pp. 221-236 only). New York: Plenum. Sidman, M. (1986). Functional analysis of emergent verbal classes. In T. Thompson & M. D. Zeiler (Eds.), Analysis and Integration of Behavioral Units (pp. 213-245). Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates. |
| 8th Meeting: | Catania, chapters 10 and 11 (pp. 163-197) McDowell, J. J. (1988). Matching theory in natural human environments. The Behavior Analyst, 11, 95-109. Mazur, J. E. (1997). Choice, delay, probability, and conditioned reinforcement. Animal Learning and Behavior, 25, 131-147. Tatham, T. A. & Wanchisen, B. A. (1998). Behavioral History: A Definition and Some Common Findings from Two Areas of Research. The Behavior Analyst, 21, 241-251 |
| 10th Meeting: | Catania, chapter 6 (pp. 89-97 only) Newsam, C., Favell, J. E., & Rincover, A. (1983). The side-effects of punishment. In S. Axelrod & J. Apsche (Eds.), The Effects of Punishment on Human Behavior (pp. 285-316). New York: Academic Press. Staddon, J. (February, 1995). On responsibility and punishment. The Atlantic Monthly, 88-94. Van Houten, R. (1983). Punishment: From the animal laboratory to the applied setting. In S. Axelrod & J. Apsche (Eds.), The Effects of Punishment on Human Behavior (pp. 13-44). New York: Academic Press. |
| 11th Meeting: | Catania, chapter 6 continued (pp. 97-110) Galizio, M., Robinson, E. G., & Ordronneau, C. (1994). Opioid drugs and timeout from avoidance. Behavioural Pharmacology, 5, 125-130. Hineline, P. N. (1984). Aversive control: A separate domain? Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior, 42, 495-509. Hineline, P. N. (1997). Video tutorial: "Aversive events and behavior." Society for the Quantitative Analysis of Behavior. Iwata, B. A. (1987). Negative reinforcement in applied behavior analysis: An emerging technology. Journal of Applied Behavior Analysis, 20, 361-378. Perone, M., & Galizio, M. (1987). Variable-interval schedules of timeout from avoidance. Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior, 47, 97-113. |
| 12th Meeting: | Catania, chapters 14 (pp. 239-260) and 15
(pp. 261-264) Glenn, S. S. (1983). Maladaptive functional relations in client verbal behavior. The Behavior Analyst, 6, 47-56. Lamarre, J., & Holland, J. G. (1985). The functional independence of mands and tacts. Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior, 43, 5-19. Layng, T. V. J., & Andronis, P. T. (1984). Toward a functional analysis of delusional speech and hallucinatory behavior. The Behavior Analyst, 7, 139-156. Mace, F. C., & Lalli, J. S. (1991). Linking descriptive and experimental analyses in the treatment of bizarre speech. Journal of Applied Behavior Analysis, 24, 553-562. Truax, C. B. (1966). Reinforcement and nonreinforcement in Rogerian psychotherapy. Journal of Abnormal Psychology, 71, 1-9. |
| 13th Meeting: | Catania, chapter 15 (pp. 290-291) Lloyd, K. E. (1980/1994). Do as I say, not as I do. The Behavior Analyst, 17, 131-139. Moerk, E. L. (1983). A behavioral analysis of controversial topics in first language acquisition: Reinforcements, corrections, modeling, input frequencies, and the three-term contingency pattern. Journal of Psycholinguistic Research, 12, 129-155. Zettle, R. D., & Hayes, S. C. (1982). Rule-governed behavior: A potential theoretical framework for cognitive-behavioral therapy. In P. K. Kendall (Ed.), Advances in Cognitive-behavioral Research and Therapy, Vol. 1. New York: Academic Press, Inc. |
| 14th Meeting: | Palmer, D. C. (1991). A behavioral interpretation of memory. In L. J. Hayes & P. N. Chase (Eds.), Dialogues on Verbal Behavior. Reno, NV: Context Press, Inc. |
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