Web Links - Chapter 8
Behavior Analysis and Learning, Fourth Edition is an essential textbook covering the basic principles in the field of behavior analysis and learned behaviors, as pioneered by B. F. Skinner.
- http://www.polyxo.com/discretetrial/sd.html
- The website www.polyxo.com concerns teaching of children with autism and the site has a focus on discriminative stimuli and teaching.
- http://www.unc.edu/courses/psyc070d/dpat/
- A slide show of the discriminative effects of drugs such as dopamine and opioids established by Charles Cook.
- http://www.psych.ualberta.ca/~msnyder/Academic/Psych_281/C10/Ch10page.html
- A site maintained by Mark Snyder and slide shows for various aspects of stimulus control and discrimination (e.g., generalization gradient, peak shift, errorless discrimination, etc.).
- http://www2.vet.upenn.edu/labs/equinebehavior/cognition.htm
- The study of concept formation in the horse is the topic of this website; it is interesting that the researchers interpret the discriminative responses of the horses as evidence for animal cognition and mental representation. We suggest that mentalistic explanations of the horses' behavior are not necessary; an account in terms of the contingencies of reinforcement would be more appropriate.