Experiments in operant behavior / Ellen P. Reese

Includes bibliographical references and index

Preface -- Note to the instructor -- Suggested time table for experimentation -- List of figures -- List of tables -- Introduction -- The pigeon as a laboratory animal -- Apparatus and equipment -- Use of manual with rats as subjects -- Preparation for experimentation -- Original conditioning and extinction -- Intermittent reinforcement on a fixed interval schedule -- Intermittent reinforcement on a fixed ratio schedule -- Reinforcement on a variable ratio schedule -- Report on four schedules of reinforcement -- Other schedules of reinforcement -- Generalization gradiant -- Discrimination -- Motivation -- Food preferences and subhungers -- Conditioning another operant -- Conditioned, or secondary, reinforcement -- Chaining -- Suggestions for further experiments, individual projects -- Operant conditioning experiments with children as subjects -- Glossary