Monkeys were trained in a Skinner box to press keys for soybeans or regular diet pellets on a concurrent fixed-ratio schedule ("key-press session"). Having established a stable response, the monkeys were given "home cage sessions" in which they experienced soybean-poison (100 mg/kg of lithium chloride) pairings in the home cages. They eventually stopped eating soybeans in the home cages, but co...

Obesity and overeating have become fundamental problems in modern society. This article studies the inhibition of food-seeking behavior, and how contextual cues can control it. Rats that had free food in the home cage nevertheless learned to lever press for sucrose or high-fat pellets in a distinctive context (a Skinner box). Lever pressing was then inhibited by extinction, in which lever press...

From its inception in the 1930s until very recent times, the cumulative recorder was the most widely used measurement instrument in the experimental analysis of behavior. It was an essential instrument in the discovery and analysis of schedules of reinforcement, providing the first real-time analysis of operant response rates and patterns. This review traces the evolution of the cumulative reco...

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Skinner is, without a doubt, one of the most predominant figures in the development of Behavior Modification and Behavior Therapy. Skinners' work is essential to the development of Behavior Modification and Behavior Therapy. Beginning with the social need for efficient psychotherapy, and after having generated a solid theoretical body of behavioral laws, Skinner indicated and also developed the...

These short notes describe the way in which Skinner considers and resolves his differences with Pavlov in the question of the relation between psychology and physiology as forms of knowledge. After establishing his viewpoint in the general epistemological issue, Skinner is concerned about linking his study of behavior to the work of Pavlov, who considered it to be of a physiological nature. Ski...

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B. F. Skinner, in a chapter on ‘‘Behavior and the Nervous System’’ in his seminal work, The Behavior of Organisms (1938, pp. 418–432), expressed both strong interest in and considerable concern about relating behavior and what he termed ‘‘neurology.’’ On the positive side, he subscribed to a unified reductionist science: ‘‘One of the objectives of science is presumably the statement of all know...