300 Pages
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Routledge
300 Pages
by
Routledge
300 Pages
by
Routledge
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Originally published in 1988, the purpose of this title was to present a coherent summary of the previous 30 years’ of research on the way in which animals and humans distribute their behaviour between alternative sources of reinforcement. There were three reasons why the book was needed at the time. First, it makes use of the empirical results available, something only partially present in many... Read more
Preface. Acknowledgments. 1. Historical Antecedents 2. The Strict Matching Law 3. Herrnstein’s Equations, Multiple Schedules, and Empirical Research 4. Generalized Matching 5. Quantitative Methods 6. Concurrent-Schedule Research I: Reinforcer Parameters 7. Concurrent-Schedule Research II: Schedule Types 8. Concurrent-Schedule Research III: Miscellany 9. Multiple-Schedule Research 10. Concurrent-Chain Performance 11.Matching Models of Signal Detection 12.For the Future. References. Author Index. Subject Index
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Michael Davison, Dianne McCarthy
