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Should we essentially ignore the role of stimuli in a general account of operant selection?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  06 November 2001

Rick A. Bevins
Rick A. Bevins
Affiliation:
Department of Psychology, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Lincoln, NE 68588-0308 rbevins1@unl.edu www.unl.edu/psychoneuropharm/
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Abstract

The selectionist account of behavior is actually a focused discussion of operant selection. To this end, the authors essentially exclude stimuli from their analysis. This exclusion is inconsistent with the importance placed on environmental interaction in their general account. Further, this exclusion limits the generality of their account by missing important sources of stimulus-elicited behavior (e.g., classical conditioning).

Type
Brief Report
Information
Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 24 , Issue 3 , June 2001 , pp. 528 - 529
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© 2001 Cambridge University Press

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