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Peer reviewedLukas, Kristen E.; Marr, M. Jackson; Maple, Terry L. – Teaching of Psychology, 1998
Describes a partnership between Zoo Atlanta and the Georgia Institute of Technology in teaching the principles of operant conditioning to students in an experimental psychology class. Maintains that the positive training techniques used in zoos are models of applied operant conditioning. Includes a discussion of zoo training goals. (MJP)
Descriptors: Animal Caretakers, Behavior Modification, Classical Conditioning, Cognitive Psychology
Direct linkWhelan, Robert; Barnes-Holmes, Dermot – Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior, 2004
Although the literature on reinforcement in behavioral psychology is extensive, few studies have examined the derived transformation of reinforcing functions in accordance with equivalence classes, and no published research has yet examined the derived transformation of consequential functions in accordance with nonequivalence relations. In the…
Descriptors: Context Effect, Cues, Reinforcement, Psychological Studies
