Principles of Behavior: An Introduction to Behavior Theory

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Title Page......Page 1 Preface......Page 3 Foreword to the seventh printing......Page 5 Acknowledgments......Page 17 Contents......Page 19 I. The Nature of Scientific Theory......Page 23 II. Introduction to an Objective Theory of Behavior......Page 38 III. Stimulus Reception and Organism Survival......Page 54 IV. The Biological Problem of Action and Its Coordination......Page 72 V. Characteristics of Innate Behavior Under Conditions of Need......Page 79 VI. The Acquisition of Receptor-Effector Connections. Primary Reinforcement......Page 90 VII. The Acquisition of Receptor-Effector Connections. Secondary Reinforcement......Page 106 VIII. The Symbolic Construct sHr as a Function of the Number of Reinforcements......Page 124 IX. Habit Strenght as a Function of the Nature and Amount of the Reinforcing Agent......Page 146 X. Habit Strenght and the Time Interval Separating Reaction from Reinforcement......Page 157 XI. Habit Strenght as a Function of the Temporal Relation of the Conditioned Stimulus to the Reaction......Page 187 XII. Stimulus Generalization......Page 205 XIII. Some Functional Dynamics of Compound Conditioned Stimuli......Page 226 XIV. Primary Motivation and Reaction Potential......Page 248 XV. Unadaptive Habits and Experimental Extinction......Page 280 XVI. Inhibition and Effective Reaction Potential......Page 299 XVII. Behavioral Oscillation......Page 326 XVIII. The Reaction Threshold and Response Evocation......Page 344 XIX. The Patterning of Stimulus Compounds......Page 371 XX. General Summary and Conclusions......Page 403 Glossary of Symbols......Page 425 Index of Names......Page 433 Index of Subjects......Page 437