The Effect of Delay and of Intervening Events on Reinforcement Value - Quantitative Analyses of Behavior, Volume V

List of contents

About the Editors, List of Contributors, Preface, PART I STUDIES OF DELAY AND CHOICE: MOLAR AND MOLECULAR CONCEPTIONS OF CHOICE, PART II SINGLE SCHEDULES, PART III CONCURRENT SCHEDULES AND CONCURRENT-CHAIN SCHEDULES, PART IV SELF-CONTROL, Author Index, Subject Index

About the author

Michael L. Commons Harvard University, Jams E. Mazur Harvard University, John A. Nevin University of New Hampshire, Howard Rachlin State University of New York Stony Brook.

Summary

First published in 1986. This is Volume V of six in a series on Quantitative Analyses of Behavior. Quantitative analysis now generally refers to the fact that theoretical issues are represented by quantitative models. An analysis is not a matter of fitting arbitrary functions to data points. The volumes in the present series have been written for behavioral scientists. Those concerned with issues in the study of how behavior is acquired and then allocated in various environments-biologists, psychologists, economists, anthropologists, and other researchers, as well as graduate students and advanced undergraduates in those areas-should find volumes in this series to be state-of the-art readers and reference works. Each volume of the series examines a particular topic that has been discussed at the annual Symposium on Quantitative Analyses of Behavior held at Harvard University. This volume, V, addresses the topic of how reinforcement value is affected by delay and intervening events. Self-control studies are also presented and discussed.

Product details

• Assisted by: Michael L. Commons (Editor), Commons Michael L. (Editor), James E. Mazur (Editor), Mazur James E. (Editor), John A. Nevin (Editor), Nevin John A. (Editor), Howard Rachlin (Editor), Rachlin Howard (Editor)
• Publisher: Taylor and Francis
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.11.1986
• EAN: 9780898598001
• ISBN: 978-0-89859-800-1
• No. of pages: 362
• Weight: 830 g
• Series: Quantitative Analyses of Behavior Series
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Psychology > Theoretical psychology; Animal behaviour, Behavioural theory (Behaviourism), Behaviourism, Behavioural theory, Ethology and animal behaviour, PSYCHOLOGY / Psychotherapy / Behaviorism