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What behavers do

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  19 May 2011

Michael D. Zeiler
Affiliation:
Department of Psychology, Emory University, Atlanta, GA 39322. Psymdz@unix.cc.emory.edu

Abstract

Is schedule theory necessary? Or is Killeen (1994a) explaining clever laboratory contrivances that have no necessary relevance to understanding the role of behavior in life? We still await a psychological correspondence principle that can establish a sound basis for this elegant and essentially biological theory of reinforcement schedules.

Type
Continuing Commentary
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1996

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