Chapter 5: Whatever Happened to Behavior Anyway?

Chapter Outline

Memory and Learning

  • How well is conditioning remembered?
  • Causes of forgetting
  • Remembering, forgetting, and extinction
  • Other examples of context, ambiguity, and interference
  • Summary

The Modulation of Behavior

  • Occasion setting
  • Three properties of occasion setters
  • What does it all mean?
  • What is learned in occasion setting?
  • Configural conditioning
  • Other forms of modulation
  • Summary

Understanding the Nature of the Conditioned Response

  • Two problems for stimulus substitution
  • Understanding conditioned compensatory responses
  • Conditioning and behavior systems
  • What does it all mean?
  • Conclusion

Summary

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