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Variations and Selections:
An Anthology of Reviews from the Journal of the
Experimental Analysis of Behavior
Edited and with Introductions by A. C. Catania and P. N. Hineline
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Introduction
Part I. Background of the JEAB Reviews
Part II. Antecedents of Behavior Analysis
- The examining magistrate for nature: A retrospective review of
Claude Bernard's "An introduction to the study of experimental
medicine".
T. Thompson
- 'Tis the gift to be simple: A retrospective appreciation of
Mach's "The science of mechanics."
M. J. Marr
- J. R. Kantor's "Objective psychology of grammar" and "Psychology
and logic": A retrospective appreciation.
W. N. Schoenfeld
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Quotation: John Lubbock on studying the individual organism
Part III. The Origins and Nature of Behavior Analysis
- Review of B. F. Skinner's "Behavior of organisms."
E. R. Hilgard
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The origins of environment-based psychological theory.
P. N. Hineline
- Inhibition: A cautionary tale.
J. W. Donahoe & D. C. Palmer
- Quotation: E. B. Titchener on behaviorism
- Skinner's theory of behavior: An examination of B. F. Skinner's
"Contingencies of reinforcement: A theoretical analysis."
S. Winokur
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Quotation: Goethe's "Faust" on the priority of behavior
- Between organism and environment: A review of B. F. Skinner's
"About behaviorism."
R. Schnaitter
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Quotation: John Steinbeck on theories
- Contemporary behaviorism versus the old behavioral straw man
in Gardner's "The mind's new science: A history of the cognitive revolution."
C. P. Shimp
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Quotation: W. MacDougall on behaviorism: A prognostication
- Criticism and response in the Skinner controversies.
J. Czubaroff
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Quotation: Bertrand Russell on Thorndike's first law
Part IV. The Contrasting Associationist Tradition
- Review of Hull's "Principles of behavior."
B. F. Skinner
- Mysteries of the organism: Clark L. Hull's "Principles of behavior"
and some problems in contemporary schedule theory.
J. H. Wearden
- Were theories of learning necessary? A review of N. E.
Miller's "Neal E. Miller: Selected papers."
R. A. Rescorla
- The compleat associationist: A review of N. J. Mackintosh's
"The psychology of animal learning."
R. G. Weisman
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Quotation: B. F. Skinner on stimulus-sampling theory
- The other psychology of animal learning: A review of Mackintosh's
"Conditioning and associative learning."
B. A. Williams
Part V. The Interpretive Language and Methods of Behavior Analysis
- Definition in behavioral science: A review of B. B. Wolman's
"Dictionary of behavioral science."
W. M. Baum
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Quotation: R. S. Woodworth on the language of psychology
- On the tactful specification of meaning: A review of Harre and
Lamb's "The encyclopedic dictionary of psychology."
J. Moore
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Quotation: James Clerk Maxwell on single-subject design
- Seeking the natural lines of fracture: A review of Thompson
and Zeiler's "Analysis and integration of behavioral units."
J. M. Hinson
- Quantitative analysis.
J. A. Nevin
- Is operant conditioning getting bored with behavior?
C. B. Ferster
- Farewell, My Lovely!
B. F. Skinner
- How to look at data: A review of John W. Tukey's "Exploratory data
analysis."
R. M. Church
- Tactics of graphic design: A review of Tufte's "The visual display
of quantitative information."
I. H. Iversen
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Quotation: Claude Bernard on the use of averages
- Reading and writing about research methods in behavior analysis:
A personal account of a review of Johnston and Pennypacker's
"Strategies and tactics of behaviorial research" (2nd ed.) and others.
J. G. Osborne
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Quotation: W. K. Estes on higher-order classes of behavior
Part VI. Common Concerns of Biology and Behavior Analysis
- Biology as allegory: A review of Elliott Sober's "The nature of selection."
T. L. Smith
- A hierarchy of developmental contingencies: A review of Purves and
Lichtman's "Principles of neural development."
R. R. Provine
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Quotation: D. L. Hull on multiple control of scientific behavior
- Drugs in psychology: A commentary on Travis Thompson and Charles
R. Schuster's "Behavioral pharmacology."
P. B. Dews
- On going back to nature: A review of Seligman and Hager's "Biological
boundaries of learning."
B. Schwartz
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Function, causation, evolution, and development of behavior: A review
of The animal in its world by N. Tinbergen.
S. J. Shettleworth
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The science and art of training: A review of Pryor's Lads before the
wind.
L. H. Squier
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Quotation: S. D. S. Spragg on behavior modification in the chimpanzee
- Behavior analysis takes a field trip: A review of Krebs and Davies'
"Behavioural ecology: An evolutionary approach."
L. L. Crawford
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Quotation: E. L. Thorndike and E. C. Tolman on preparedness
- Some Darwinian lessons for behavior analysis: A review of
Bowler's "The eclipse of Darwinism."
A. C. Catania
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Quotation: Alan M. Turing on learning and natural selection
Part VII. Sensory Psychology as Analysis of the Effective Environment
- The measurement of sensory processes in animals: A review of
"Animal psychophysics: The design and conduct of sensory experiments,"
edited by William C. Stebbins.
P. M. Blough
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Quotation: Adam Gopnik on the role of variation and selection in art
- Signal detection theory and operant behavior: A review of David M. Green
and John A. Swets' "Signal detection theory and psychophysics."
J. A. Nevin
- The schemapiric view: Notes on S. S. Stevens' "Philosophy and
psychophysics."
P. Killeen
- Inhibition and the operant: A review of "Sensory inhibition" by G. v. Bekesy
and "Mach bands: Quantitative studies on neural networks in the retina" by
Floyd Ratliff.
J. E. R. Staddon
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Quotation: J. F. Cooke on musical chains, crabwise
- Are theories of perception necessary? A review of Gibson's "The ecological
approach to visual perception."
A. P. Costall
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Quotation: E. L. Thorndike on the visual cliff
Part VIII. Cognition as Behavior: Conflicting Perspectives
- Inside the black box, with apologies to Pandora: A review of
Ulric Neisser's "Cognitive psychology."
K. Salzinger
- Dis-believing cognitive psychology: A review of
Stich's "From folk psychology to cognitive science."
G. E. Zuriff
- Organization in memory and behavior.
C. P. Shimp
- On the role of "memory" in the analysis of behavior.
M. N. Branch
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Quotation: Plotinus on perception and memory
- Comparative psychology returns: A review of Hulse, Fowler, and
Honig's "Cognitive processes in animal behavior."
E. A. Wasserman
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Quotation: J. Piaget and B. F. Skinner on extinction The second offspring
of general process learning theory: Overt behavior as the ambassador of the
mind.
J. C. Malone, Jr.
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Quotation: Euell Gibbons on conditioned seeing
- The vocabulary of remembering: A review of Kendrick, Rilling, and Denny's
"Theories of animal memory."
J. T. Wixted
- Cognition and behavior analysis: A review of Rachlin's "Judgment, decision,
and choice."
S. Stolarz-Fantino & E. Fantino
- The kiss and the promise: A review of Hubert L. Dreyfus' "What computer's
can't do: The limits of artificial intelligence."
E. K. Crossman
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Quotation: Alan M. Turing on rule-governance and contingencies
- The interpretation of complex human behavior: Some reactions to
"Parallel distributed processing," edited by J. L. McClelland, D. E.
Rumelhart, and the PDP Research Group.
J. W. Donahoe & D. C. Palmer
- The nonequivalence of behavioral and mathematical equivalence.
R. R. Saunders & G. Green
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Quotation: Bertrand Russell on discrimination training
Part IX. Relevant Philosophical Traditions
- Radical behaviorism in reconciliation with phenomenology.
W. F. Day
- On certain similarities between the "Philosophical investigations" of Ludwig
Wittgenstein and the operationism of B. F. Skinner.
W. F. Day
- The haunted clockwork: Reflections on Gilbert Ryle's "The concept of mind."
R. Schnaitter
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Quotation: Maimonides on natural and artificial reinforcers
- The language of action: A review of Schafer's "A new language for
psychoanalysis."
V. L. Lee
- Finding the philosophical core: A review of Stephen C. Pepper's
"World hypotheses: A study in evidence."
S. C. Hayes, L. J. Hayes &
H. W. Reese
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Quotation: Leo Tolstoy on freedom
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Problematic progress: A review of Laudans Progress and its
problems and Science and values.
B. Batts & L. L. Crawford
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Quotation: Blair Kinsman on research addiction
Part X. Verbal Behavior, Language and Linguistics
- Bertrand Russells review of The meaning of meaning.
W. S. Wood
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Quotation: Bertrand Russell on determinism in science
- B. F. Skinners Verbal behavior: A retrospective appreciation.
K. MacCorquodale
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Quotation: Paul Goodman on speaking and language
- On Chomskys review of Skinner's "Verbal behavior."
K. MacCorquodale
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Quotation: Alexander Bain on the virtues of rule-governed behavior
- Nativism revisited: A review of Eric H. Lenneberg's "Biological
foundations of language."
D. J. Bem & S. L. Bem
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Quotation: L. I. Lapham on rule-governed behavior
- Psycholinguistics discovers the operant: A review of Roger Brown's
"A first language: The early stages."
E. F. Segal
- LAD was a lady, or the mother of all language learning: A review of
Moerk's "First language: Taught and learned."
K. Salzinger
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Quotation: La Mettrie on language in apes
- The case of the silent dog---Verbal reports and the analysis of rules:
A review of Ericsson and Simon's "Protocol analysis: Verbal reports as data."
S. C. Hayes
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Quotation: Igor Stravinsky on the composer as locus
Part XI. Affinities with the Social Sciences
- Economic concepts for the analysis of behavior.
S. R. Hursh
- Of carrots and sticks: A review of Deci and Ryans Intrinsic motivation
and self-determination in human behavior.
D. J. Bernstein
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B. F. Skinner and G. H. Mead: On biological science and social science.
D. E. Blackman
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Quotation: D. C. Anderson on cultural contingencies
- Behavioral anthropology: A review of Marvin Harris' "Cultural materialism."
K. E. Lloyd
Postscript [Some recent, unreviewed candidates for
inclusion in these categories.]
References for the Introductions and Postscript
Index
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Experimental Analysis of Behavior, Inc.
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Revised February 9 2007 (vgl)
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