Title | Date | Views | Brief Description |
Higher-order control over equivalence classes and response sequences : an experimental analogue of simple syntactical relations |
1987 |
192 |
The purpose of the present research was to investigate the emergence of untrained response sequences under complex environmental control. Eight adult humans were taught conditional discriminations in a matching-to-sample format that led to the format... |
The use of therapist rules, self rules, and contingency-shaped feedback in the treatment of social skills deficits in adults |
1986 |
410 |
Skinner added an important extension to his analysis of human behavior when he discussed the concept of rule-governed behavior. Contingency-shaped behavior is behavior under the control of past consequences. Rule-governed behavior, a subset of contin... |
Conditional control of equivalence and the relations different and opposite : a behavior analytic model of complex verbal behavior |
1987 |
235 |
Behavior analytic approaches to the explanation of verbal behavior have been criticized because of difficulty explaining verbal productivity---the ability to make novel verbalizations which are in some way appropriate to the context. Match to sample ... |
Cognitive therapy of depression : a conceptual and empirical analysis of component and process issues |
1984 |
385 |
The purpose of the present study was threefold. One purpose was to conduct a component analysis of Beck’s cognitive therapy by presenting its three treatment components--distancing, rational restructuring, and behavioral homework-in various sequentia... |
The relationship between two classes of measures examined idiothetically and nomothetically |
1986 |
401 |
The present study was designed to investigate the relationship between the subjective and physiological measures of sexual arousal. Twenty males were seen individually on four different occasions to view erotic slides and photographs of females and m... |
The effects of verbal consequences for rule-following on sensitivity to programmed contingencies of reinforcement |
1991 |
214 |
This study examined the effects of two types of verbal consequences for rule-following and their impact on subject's responses to programmed schedules of reinforcement. The first type of consequence involved feedback on the correspondence between the... |