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Operant behavior and the thesis of “selection by consequences”

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  06 November 2001

J. Moore
J. Moore
Affiliation:
Department of Psychology, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Milwaukee, WI 53201 jcm@uwm.edu www.uwm.edu/~jcm
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Abstract

Behavioral theorists such as B. F. Skinner have argued that the thesis of selection by consequences applies to behavior just as much as to morphology. This commentary specifically examines certain respects in which the thesis of “selection by consequences” applies to the development of ontogenic operant behavior.

Type
Brief Report
Information
Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 24 , Issue 3 , June 2001 , pp. 546 - 547
Copyright
© 2001 Cambridge University Press

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