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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
  • 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
  • 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
  • Quotation: Goethe's "Faust" on the priority of behavior
  • Between organism and environment: A review of B. F. Skinner's "About behaviorism." R. Schnaitter
  • 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
  • Quotation: W. MacDougall on behaviorism: A prognostication
  • Criticism and response in the Skinner controversies. J. Czubaroff
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • Function, causation, evolution, and development of behavior: A review of “The animal in its world” by N. Tinbergen. S. J. Shettleworth
  • The science and art of training: A review of Pryor's “Lads before the wind.” L. H. Squier
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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.
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • Quotation: Leo Tolstoy on freedom
  • Problematic progress: A review of Laudan’s “Progress and its problems” and “Science and values.” B. Batts & L. L. Crawford
  • Quotation: Blair Kinsman on research addiction


Part X. Verbal Behavior, Language and Linguistics
  • Bertrand Russell’s review of “The meaning of meaning.” W. S. Wood
  • Quotation: Bertrand Russell on determinism in science
  • B. F. Skinner’s “Verbal behavior”: A retrospective appreciation. K. MacCorquodale
  • Quotation: Paul Goodman on speaking and language
  • On Chomsky’s review of Skinner's "Verbal behavior." K. MacCorquodale
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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 Ryan’s “Intrinsic motivation and self-determination in human behavior.” D. J. Bernstein
  • B. F. Skinner and G. H. Mead: On biological science and social science. D. E. Blackman
  • 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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