Web Links - Chapter 9
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.pigeon.psy.tufts.edu/eam/eam7.htm
- This module is designed to illustrate the patch problems of optimal foraging. Students can control the rate of reinforcement within a patch, and its depletion rate.
- http://www.envmed.rochester.edu/wwwrap/behavior/jeab_articles_exp/1999/jeab-71-03-0355.pdf
- An article is available by William Baum and his associates on foraging, the generalized matching law, and contingency discrimination. This is a good example of the experimental analysis of choice in the context of foraging.
- http://www.psych.auckland.ac.nz/psych/ugrad/STAGE3/461.309FC/Teach309/Theories%20of%20Matching/MATCHMAX.htm
- The website gives more detailed accounts of matching, maximizing, and melioration, and tests of these alternative theoretical models.