The year of Thorndike’s dissertation on animal intelligence, 1898, may mark the beginning of the field that eventually became known as the experimental analysis of behavior. The dissertation began a major shift in thinking about animal and human learning, provided important methodological innovations, and carried the seeds of later research and theory, particularly by B. F. Skinner. Although Th...

Classical conditioning experiments probe what animals learn about their environment. This thesis presents an exploration of the latent cause theory of classical conditioning. According to the theory, animals assume that events within their environment are attributable to a latent cause. Learning is interpreted as an attempt to recover the generative model that gave rise to these observed events...

Abstract Despite educational and employment advancements, research indicates that traditional sexual scripts are nevertheless often considered adhered to as related gendered conditioning. This manuscript reviews the script theory, provides application illustrations of theories discusses implications such conditioning, particularly for women.

In this paper, we present a Non-Bayesian conditioning rule for belief revision. This rule is truly Non-Bayesian in the sense that it doesn’t satisfy the common adopted principle that when a prior belief is Bayesian, after conditioning by X, Bel(X|X) must be equal to one. Our new conditioning rule for belief revision is based on the proportional conflict redistribution rule of combination develo...

The difference between Bayesian conditioning and Lewis' imaging is somewhat similar to the one between Gardenfors' belief revision and Katsuno and Mendelzon' updating in the logical framework. Counterparts in possibility theory of these two operations are presented, including the case of conditioning upon an uncertain observation. Possibilistic conditioning satisfies all the postulates for beli...

S approach to psychology was inevitable. After Nietzche declared in the nineteenth century that we should move "beyond good and evil," it was only a matter of time before we were asked to go "beyond freedom and dignity." Nietzche prepared the way for Skinner by radicalizing the critique begun by others of the traditional view that man is a reasoning being. l Skinner follows that critique throug...

Scholars, psychologists and pedagogues like Al-Ghazali, Skinner, Piaget, Vygotsky others give us an opportunity to have insight into: 1) How re-think education; 2) What is the most comprehensive way for a learner learn?; 3) Imagine new environment that can better future especially growing child. They are people who remind learning always involve interaction with other people, submitting ourselv...