Learning and Complex Behavior
- J. DonahoeD. C. Palmer
- 8 October 1993
Psychology, Biology
Written from the perspective of selectionist theory, this text presents a theoretically integrated approach to the study of animal learning and human cognition that co-ordinates behavioural research…
A Behavioral Interpretation of Memory
- D. C. Palmer
- 1991
Psychology
The goal of this paper is to provide a behavioral interpretation of those phenomena for which the term memory is commonly invoked, and to show that the phenomena currently studied in academic programs in the "field of memory" are not theoretically coherent from a behavioral perspective.
The Multiple Control of Verbal Behavior
- J. MichaelD. C. PalmerM. Sundberg
- 2011
Psychology
It is suggested that multiple control is a useful analytic tool for interpreting virtually all complex behavior, and the concepts of derived relations and naming are considered as cases in point.
Response strength and the concept of the repertoire
- D. C. Palmer
- 1 June 2009
Psychology
The concept of response probability is central to the task of predicting behavior, whereas the closely related concept of response strength is commonly applied to ongoing overt or covert behavior, as…
The Role of Private Events in the Interpretation of Complex Behavior
- D. C. Palmer
- 2009
Psychology
Like most other sciences, behavior analysis adopts an assumption of uniformity, namely that principles discovered under controlled conditions apply outside the laboratory as well. Since the boundary…
A selectionist approach to reinforcement.
- J. DonahoeJ. BurgosD. C. Palmer
- 1 July 1993
Psychology
The simulations indicate that a single reinforcement principle, implemented in a biologically plausible neural network, is competent to produce as its cumulative product networks that can mediate a substantial number of the phenomena generated by respondent and operant contingencies.
The Speaker as Listener: The Interpretation of Structural Regularities in Verbal Behavior
- D. C. Palmer
- 1998
Linguistics
Although this account offers only a tentative interpretation of grammar and syntax in a limited domain, it suggests that the conceptual tools of behavior analysis are adequate to the task of explaining even the most subtle of grammatical rules.
Data in search of a principle: a review of relational frame theory: a post-Skinnerian account of human language and cognition.
- D. C. Palmer
- 1 March 2004
Psychology
It is argued that an account of relational behavior must be integrated with Skinner’s analysis; it will not replace it and found the empirical phenomena important but the conceptual discussion incomplete.
Achieving parity: The role of automatic reinforcement.
- D. C. Palmer
- 1996
Psychology
The central insight of Horne and Lowe's article is the importance of the role played by the discriminative effects of one's speech upon one's self. Informed by this insight, Horne and Lowe provide a…
Verbal Behavior: What is the Function of Structure?
- D. C. Palmer
- 1 December 2007
Linguistics
How can structural phenomena in verbal behavior be subsumed by a functional account? There are functional segments of behavior longer than the fundamental verbal operants identified by Skinner,…
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