Chapter 7: Behavior and Its Consequences
Chapter Outline
Basic Tools and Issues
- Reinforcement versus contiguity theory
- Flexibility, purpose, and motivation
- Operant psychology
- Conditioned reinforcement
The Relationship between Behavior and Payoff
- Different ways to schedule payoff
- Choice
- Choice is everywhere
- Impulsiveness and self-control
- Behavioral economics: Are reinforcers all alike?
Theories of Reinforcement
- Drive reduction
- The Premack principle
- Problems with the Premack principle
- Behavioral regulation theory
- Selection by consequences
Summary
