B. F. Skinner’s theory of behavior

References

• Allan, R. W. (1998). Operant-respondent interactions. In W. O’Donohue (Ed.), Learning and behavior therapy (pp. 146–168). Boston, MA: Allyn & Bacon.
   Google Scholar
• Arntzen, E. (2012). Training and testing parameters in formation of stimulus equivalence: Methodological issues. European Journal of Behavior Analysis, 13, 123–135.
   Google Scholar
• Augustine, S. (1976). Confessions. (E. B. Pusey, Trans.). A Limited Edition, Franklin Center, PA: The Franklin Library. (Original work published c. 398 CE).
   Google Scholar
• Barnes, T. C., & Skinner, B. F. (1930). The progressive increase in the geotropic response of the ant Aphaenogaster. The Journal of General Psychology, 4, 102–112. doi:10.1080/00221309.1930.9918305
   Google Scholar
• Barnett, L. (1948). The universe and Dr. Einstein. New York: Harper.
   Google Scholar
• Barrett, J. E. (2006). Behavioral determinants of drug action: The contributions of Peter B. Dews. Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior, 86, 359–370. doi:http://dx.doi.org/10.1901/jeab.2006.23-06
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Browne, J. (1995). Voyaging. New York: Knopf.
   Google Scholar
• Browne, J. (2002). The power of place. New York: Knopf.
   Google Scholar
• Butterfield, H. (1953). The origins of modern science. New York: The Macmillan Co.
   Google Scholar
• Carey, N. (2012). The epigenetics revolution. New York: Columbia University Press.
   Google Scholar
• Catania, C. A. (2014). Behavior analysis as a biological science: An alternate history. European Journal of Behavior Analysis, 15, 25–31.
   Google Scholar
• Chase, A. R., & Hill, W. (1999). Reliable operant apparatus for fish: Audio stimulus generator, response button, and pellet-dispensing nipple. Behavior Research Methods, Instruments, & Computers, 31(3), 470–478. http://dx.doi.org/10.3758/BF03200728
   PubMedGoogle Scholar
• Cohen, I. B. (1985). Revolution in science. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.
   Google Scholar
• Commons, M. L. (2008). Introduction to the model of hierarchical complexity and its relationship to post formal action. World Futures, 64, 305–320. doi:10.1080/02604020802301105
   Google Scholar
• Copeland, L. (2012). Help across the spectrum: A developmental pediatrician’s perspective on diagnosing and treating autism spectrum disorders. Journal of Social Work in Disability & Rehabilitation, 11(1), 1–32. doi:10.1080/1536710X.2012.648109.
   PubMedGoogle Scholar
• Copeland, L., & Buch, G. (2013). Early intervention issues in autism spectrum disorders. Autism, 3, 109.
   Google Scholar
• Crone-Todd, D. E. (2007). Assessment of thinking in adult learners. Behavioral Development Bulletin, 13, 43–46. doi:10.1037/h0100500
   Google Scholar
• Diamond, J. (1997). Guns, germs, and steel. New York: W. W. Norton.
   Google Scholar
• Ferster, C. B., & Skinner, B. F. (1997). Schedules of reinforcement ( Original work published in 1957). Cambridge, MA: B.F. Skinner Foundation.
   Google Scholar
• Feynman, R. P. (2008). Easy & not-so-easy pieces. London: The Folio Society.
   Google Scholar
• Francis, R. (2011). Epigenetics. New York: W. W. Norton.
   Google Scholar
• Freedman, D. H. (2012). The perfected self. The Atlantic, 309, 42–52. June
   Google Scholar
• Genuth, S. S. (1997). Comets, popular culture, and the birth of modern cosmology. Princeton: Princeton University Press.
   Google Scholar
• George, A. (2010). The epic of Gilgamesh ( Trans.). London: Folio Books.
   Google Scholar
• Gould, S. J. (1991). Bully for brontosaurus. New York: W. W. Norton.
   Google Scholar
• Greer, R. D., & Keohane, D. (2004). A real science and technology of education. In D. J. Moran & R. W. Malott (Eds.), Evidence-based educational methods. Boston: Elsevier.
   Google Scholar
• Gribbin, J. (2006). History of western science. 1543-2001. London: The Folio Society.
   Google Scholar
• Gugliotta, G. (2013). The First Americans. Smithonian, 43, 40–47. February
   Google Scholar
• Habarad, S. (2014, Quarter IV). Otto Fad. Operants, a quarterly report. Cambridge, MA: B. F. Skinner Foundation.
   Google Scholar
• Harmon, K. (2013, April). A sweet solution for replacing organs. Scientific American, 308, 54–55. doi:10.1038/scientificamerican0413-54
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Harris, M. (2007). Cultural materialism and behavior analysis: Common problems and radical solutions. The Behavior Analyst, 30(1), 37–48. PMCID: PMC2223157
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Hesse, M. (1972). Laws and theories. In P. Edwards (Editor in Chief), The Encyclopedia of philosophy (Vol. 4, pp. 404–410). New York: MacMillan & The Free Press. (Original work published 1967).
   Google Scholar
• Hineline, P. N., & Wanchisen, B. A. (1989). Correlated hypothesizing and the distinction between contingency-shaped and rule-governed behavior. S. G. Hayes (Ed.), Rule-governed behavior: Cognition, contingencies, and instructional control, chapter 7 (221–263). New Jersey: Plenum Press.
   Google Scholar
• Holth, P. (2006). An operant analysis of joint attention skills. European Journal of Behavior Analysis, 7, 77–91.
   Google Scholar
• Holth, P. (2014). Introduction: The future of behavior analysis—part of psychology, or a separate discipline? European Journal of Behavior Analysis, 15, 7–10.
   Google Scholar
• Holton, G. (1973). Thematic origins of scientific thought. Kepler to Einstein. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.
   Google Scholar
• Hull, D. L. (1973). Darwin and his critics. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.
   Google Scholar
• Hull, D. L. (1974). Charles Darwin and nineteenth-century philosophies of science. In R. N. Giere & R. S. Westfall (Eds.), Foundations of scientific method: The nineteenth century. Bloomington: Indiana University Press.
   Google Scholar
• Isaacson, W. (2007). Einstein. New York: Simon and Shuster.
   Google Scholar
• Iversen, I. V. (2012). A question for behavior analysts: Is behavior analysis explanation of behavior or control of behavior? European Journal of Behavior Analysis, 13, 61–68.
   Google Scholar
• Laties, V. 2003. Behavior analysis and the growth of behavioral pharmacology. The Behavior Analyst, PMid:22478405 PMCid: PMC2731461 26, 235–252.
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Lazar, R. M., Marshall, R. S., Pile-Spellman, J., Young, W. L., Hacein-Bey, L., Sloan, R. P., & Mohr, J. P. (1996). Continuous time estimation as a behavioural index of human cerebral ischaemia during temporary occlusion of the internal carotid artery. Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery & Psychiatry, 60, 559–563. doi:10.1136/jnnp.60.5.559
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Lazar, R. M., & Scarisbrick, D. (1993). Alexia without agraphia: A functional assessment of behavior in focal neurologic disease. The Psychological Record, 43, 639–650.
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Lieberman, D. E. (2011). The evolution of the human head. Cambridge, MA: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press.
   Google Scholar
• Mayr, E. (1965). Animal species and evolution. Cambridge, MA: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press.
   Google Scholar
• Mayr, E. (1991). One long argument. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.
   Google Scholar
• Mechner, F., Fredrick, T., & Jenkins, J. (2013). How can one specify and teach thinking skills?. European Journal of Behavior Analysis, 14, 285–293.
   Google Scholar
• Mellon, R. C. (2013). Transitions to safety in “obsessive” thinking: Covert links of operant chains in clinical behavior analysis. European Journal of Behavioral Analysis, 14, 177–198.
   Google Scholar
• Messick, E. (2013, Quarter III). New Zealand. Operants, a quarterly newsletter. Cambridge, MA: B. F. Skinner Foundation.
   Google Scholar
• Miller, H. (1976). Book of friends. Santa Barbara, CA: Capra Press.
   Google Scholar
• Morse, W. H., & Dews, P. B. (1997). Foreword II. In C. B. Ferster & B. F. Skinner, Schedules of reinforcement, (Original work published 1957) (xiii–xix). Cambridge, MA: B.F. Skinner Foundation.
   Google Scholar
• Oxford English Dictionary. (1971 Compact Ed.). New York, NY: Oxford University Press.
   Google Scholar
• Palmer, D. C. (2006). On Chomsky’s appraisal of Skinner’s verbal behavior: A half-century of misunderstanding. The Behavior Analyst, 29, 253–267.
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Palmer, D. C. (2013). Foreword. In B. F. Skinner, Contingencies of reinforcement. A theoretical analysis (pp. xii–xvi). Cambridge, MA: B. F. Skinner Foundation.
   Google Scholar
• Palmer, D. C. (2014, Quarter IV). B. F. Skinner’s concept of latent behavior. Operants, a quarterly report. Cambridge, MA: B. F. Skinner Foundation.
   Google Scholar
• Palya, W. L., & Allan, R. W. (2003). Dynamical concurrent schedules. Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior, 79, 1–20. http://dx.doi.org/10.1901/jeab.2003.79-1
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Pryor, K. (2004). On behavior: Essays and research. Waltham, MA: Sunshine Press.
   Google Scholar
• Pryor, K., & Norris, K. S. Eds. (1991) Dolphin societies: Discoveries and puzzles. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press.
   Google Scholar
• Pryor, K., & Ramirez, K. (2014). Modern animal training: A transformative technology. In F. K. McSweeney & E. S. Murphey (Eds.), Handbook of operant and classical conditioning. NY: Wiley-Blackwell.
   Google Scholar
• Reese, E. (2004). Foreword. In K. Pryor, On behavior: Essays and research (pp. xiii–xvii). Waltham, MA: Sunshine Books.
   Google Scholar
• Ruse, M. (2006). Darwinism and its discontents. New York: Cambridge University Press.
   Google Scholar
• Saey, T. H. 2013. Genes & cell: Just one gene for pigeon crests: Mutation arose once and then spread via breeding. Science News, 183, 18-18. April 6 10.1002/scin.v183.5
   Google Scholar
• Silva, M. T. A., Goncalves, F. L., & Garcia-Mijares, M. (2007). Neural events in the reinforcement contingency. The Behavior Analyst, 30, 17–30.
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Skinner, B. F. (1930a). The concept of the reflex in the description of behavior. Thesis. Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, 89 pp.
   Google Scholar
• Skinner, B. F. (1930b). On the conditions of elicitation of certain eating reflexes. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 16, 433–438. doi:10.1073/pnas.16.6.433
   PubMedGoogle Scholar
• Skinner, B. F. (1930c). On the inheritance of maze behavior. The Journal of General Psychology, 4, 342–346. doi:10.1080/00221309.1930.9918319
   Google Scholar
• Skinner, B. F. (1931). The concept of the reflex in the description of behavior. The Journal of General Psychology, 5, 427–458. Also reprinted in A. C. Catania & V. Laties (Eds.). Cumulative record: Definitive edition (pp. 475–503). Cambridge, MA: B. F. Skinner Foundation http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00221309.1931.9918416
   Google Scholar
• Skinner, B. F. (1935). The generic nature of the concepts of stimulus and response. The Journal of General Psychology, 12, 40–65. Also reprinted in A. C. Catania & V. Laties (Eds.). Cumulative record: Definitive edition (pp. 504-524). Cambridge, MA: B. F. Skinner Foundation. doi:10.1080/00221309.1935.9920087
   Google Scholar
• Skinner, B. F. (1948). Walden II. London: Macmillan.
   Google Scholar
• Skinner, B. F. (1953). Science and human behavior. New York: The Macmillan Co.
   Google Scholar
• Skinner, B. F. (1968). The technology of teaching ( Reprinted by the B. F. Skinner Foundation, 1992). New York: Appleton-Century-Crofts.
   Google Scholar
• Skinner, B. F. (1971). Beyond freedom and dignity. New York: Knopf.
   Google Scholar
• Skinner, B. F. (1974). About behaviorism. New York: Knopf.
   Google Scholar
• Skinner, B. F. (1978). Reflections on behaviorism and society. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice Hall.
   Google Scholar
• Skinner, B. F. (1981). Selection by consequences. Science, 213, 501–504. doi:10.1126/science.7244649
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Skinner, B. F. (1983). A matter of consequences. New York: Knopf.
   Google Scholar
• Skinner, B. F. (1991a). The behavior of organisms. Cambridge, MA: B. F. Skinner Foundation. (Original work published 1938).
   Google Scholar
• Skinner, B. F. (1992). Verbal behavior. Cambridge, MA: B. F. Skinner Foundation (Original work published 1957).
   Google Scholar
• Skinner, B. F. (1999a). Current trends in experimental psychology. A. C. Catania & V. Laties (Eds.), Cumulative record: Definitive edition (Original work published 1947) (341–359). Cambridge, MA: B. F. Skinner Foundation.
   Google Scholar
• Skinner, B. F. (1999b). Are theories of learning necessary? A. C. Catania & V. G. Laties (Eds.), Cumulative record: Definitive edition (Original work published 1947) (69–100). Cambridge, MA: B. F. Skinner Foundation.
   Google Scholar
• Skinner, B. F. (2013). Contingencies of reinforcement. A theoretical analysis. Cambridge, MA: B. F. Skinner Foundation (Original work published 1969).
   Google Scholar
• Sugai, G., O’Keeffe, B. V., & Fallon, L. M. (2012). A contextual consideration of culture and school-wide positive behavior support. Journal of Positive Behavior Interventions, 14, 197–208. doi:10.1177/1098300711426334
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Sundberg, M. L., Loeb, M., Hale, L., & Eigenheer, P. (2002). Contriving establishing operations to teach mands for information. The Analysis of Verbal Behavior, 18, 15–29.
   PubMedGoogle Scholar
• Sundberg, M. L., & Sundberg, C. A. (2011). Intraverbal behavior and verbal conditional discriminations in typically developing children and children with autism. The Analysis of Verbal Behavior, 27, 23–43.
   PubMedGoogle Scholar
• Sutherland, A. (2008). What Shamu taught me about life, love, and marriage. New York: Random House.
   Google Scholar
• Taub, E. 2012. The behavior-analytic origins of constraint-induced movement therapy: An example of behavioral neurorehabilitation. The Behavior Analyst, PMid:23449867 PMCid: PMC3501420 35, 155–178.
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Taub, E., & Uswatte, G. (2009). Constraint-induced movement therapy: A paradigm for translating advances in behavioral neuroscience into rehabilitation treatments. In G. Berntson & J. Cacioppo (Eds.), Handbook of neuroscience for the behavioral sciences (Vol. 2, pp. 1296–1319). Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons. PMid:23449867 PMCid: PMC3501420.
   Google Scholar
• Ulman, J. D. (2006a). Dealing with problem behavior in the classroom: A behaviorological perspective. In R. J. Waller (Ed.), Fostering child and adolescent mental health in the classroom (pp. 27–41). Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.
   Google Scholar
• Ulman, J. D. (2006b). Macrocontingencies and institutions: A behaviorological analysis. Behavior and Social Issues, 15, 95–100.
   Google Scholar
• Ulman, J. D., & Vargas, E. A. (2005). Behaviorology. In M. Herson & J. Rosqvist (Eds.), Encyclopedia of behavior modification and cognitive behavior therapy: Volume I, Adult clinical applications (pp. 175–176). Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.
   Google Scholar
• Van Der Meer, H. J. (1995). Visual resolution during growth in a cichlid fish: A morphological and behavioural case study. Brain, Behavior, and Evolution, 45, 25–33. http://dx.doi.org/10.1159/000113383
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Vargas, E. A. (1988). Event-governed and verbally-governed behavior. The Analysis of Verbal Behavior, 6, 11–22.
   PubMedGoogle Scholar
• Vargas, E. A. (1993, October). From behaviorism to selectionism. Educational Technology, XXXIII, 46–51.
   Google Scholar
• Vargas, E. A. (1999). Ethics. In B. J. Thyer (Ed.), The philosophical legacy of behaviorism (pp. 89–115). Dordrecht, The Netherlands: Kluwer Academic Publishers.
   Google Scholar
• Vargas, E. A. (2004). The triad of science foundations, instructional technology, and organizational structure. The Spanish Journal of Psychology, 7, 141–152. doi:10.1017/S1138741600004844
   PubMedGoogle Scholar
• Vargas, E. A. (2007). Triad model of education (II) and instructional engineering. The Spanish Journal of Psychology, 10, 314–327. doi:10.1017/S1138741600006582
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Vargas, E. A. (2012). Delivering instructional content—At any distance—Is not teaching. Psychologia Latina, 3, 45–52. doi:10.5209/rev_PSLA.2012.v3.n1.38741
   Google Scholar
• Vargas, E. A. (2013). The importance of form in Skinner’s analysis of verbal behavior and a further step. The Analysis of Verbal Behavior, PMid:23814376 PMCid: PMC3659499 29, 167–183.
   PubMedGoogle Scholar
• Vargas, E. A. (2014a). B. F. Skinner’s theory of behavior. Vestnik Novosibirskogo Gosudarstvennogo Universiteta. Seriia: Psikhologiia, 8(1), 40–67.
   Google Scholar
• Vargas, E. A. (2014b). The Ulman-Skinner letters: The coming of an independent discipline—fait accompli. European Journal of Behavior Analysis, 15, 108–110.
   PubMedGoogle Scholar
• Vargas, E. A., & Vargas, J. S. (1991a). Programmed instruction and teaching machines. In R. P. West & L. A. Hammerlynck (Eds.), Designs for excellency in education: The legacy of B. F. Skinner (pp. 34–69). Longmont, CO: Sopris West, Inc.
   Google Scholar
• Vargas, E. A., & Vargas, J. S. (1991b). Programmed instruction: What it is and how to do it. Journal of Behavioral Education, 1, 235–251. doi:10.1007/BF00957006
   Google Scholar
• Vargas, E. A., & Vargas, J. S. (1996). B. F. Skinner and the origins of programmed instruction. In L. D. Smith & W. R. Woodward (Eds.), B. F. Skinner and behaviorism in American culture (pp. 237–253). London: Associated University Presses.
   Google Scholar
• Vargas, J. S. (2013). Behavior analysis for effective teaching (2nd ed.). New York: Routledge.
   Google Scholar
• Vargas, J. S. (2014). Programmed instruction’s lessons for xMOOC designers. Mexican Journal of Behavior Analysis, 40, 2, 7–19.
   Google Scholar
• Westfall, R. S. (1978). Newton, Sir Isaac. In W. E. Preece (Ed.), Encyclopedia britannica (Vol. 13, pp. 16–21). London: Encyclopedia Britannica.
   Google Scholar