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Selection: Information and replication of the operant

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  07 November 2001

Ralph Spiga
Ralph Spiga
Affiliation:
Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, University of Texas-Houston Health Science Center, Houston, TX 77030 ralph.spiga@uth.tmc.edu www.uth.tmc.edu
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Abstract

Selection as a mode of causation is central to operant psychology. Response variation and selection by consequences corresponds to phenotypic variation, to differential survivability, and to reproduction of variants. In natural selection, genes code for phylogenic history but no analogous processes exists for coding behavioral history. Neuroscience suggests potential processes but the conceptual status of these events requires clarification.

Type
Brief Report
Information
Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 24 , Issue 3 , June 2001 , pp. 556 - 557
Copyright
© 2001 Cambridge University Press

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