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Do operant behaviors replicate?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  06 November 2001

Todd Grantham
Todd Grantham
Affiliation:
Department of Philosophy, College of Charleston, Charleston, SC 29424 granthamt@cofc.edu
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Abstract

Operant conditioning is not a selection process. According to Hull et al., selection processes require entities that reproduce to form lineages. However, since operant behaviors do not reproduce, operant conditioning is not a selection process.

Type
Brief Report
Information
Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 24 , Issue 3 , June 2001 , pp. 538 - 539
Copyright
© 2001 Cambridge University Press

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