- Title Pages
- Current Perspectives in Psychology
- Frontispiece
- Dedication
- Series Foreword
- Foreword
- Preface
-
1 Introduction -
2 Adaptation -
3 Sculpting of Tendencies -
4 Learning, the Foundation of Intelligence -
5 Limitations of Respondents and Operants -
6 First Lessons from Primates -
7 Primate Research at the San Diego Zoo -
8 Interesting Events at the San Diego Zoo -
9 The LANA Project, 1971 -
10 The Assembling of Language -
11 Kanzi! -
12 Asking Questions so That Animals Can Provide the Right Answers -
13 When Emergents Just Don't Emerge -
14 Animals Count -
15 Brain Business -
16 Processes Basic to Learning and Reinforcement -
17 Harlow's Bridge to Rational Behaviors -
18 Rational Behaviorism -
19 Overview and Perspective - Epilogue
- References
- Recommended Reading
- Index
Limitations of Respondents and Operants
Limitations of Respondents and Operants
- Chapter:
- (p.44) 5 Limitations of Respondents and Operants
- Source:
- Intelligence of Apes and Other Rational Beings
- Author(s):
Duane M. Rumbaugh
David A. Washburn
- Publisher:
- Yale University Press
This chapter considers the limitations of respondents (respondent conditioning) and operants (operant conditioning). It also discusses how learning can be achieved without experience by illustrating some examples from the perspective of conditioning and learning. The chapter also examines the intertwining of operant conditioning with respondent conditioning and verbal instruction.
Keywords: respondents, respondent conditioning, operants, operant conditioning, learning, conditioning, verbal instruction
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- Title Pages
- Current Perspectives in Psychology
- Frontispiece
- Dedication
- Series Foreword
- Foreword
- Preface
-
1 Introduction -
2 Adaptation -
3 Sculpting of Tendencies -
4 Learning, the Foundation of Intelligence -
5 Limitations of Respondents and Operants -
6 First Lessons from Primates -
7 Primate Research at the San Diego Zoo -
8 Interesting Events at the San Diego Zoo -
9 The LANA Project, 1971 -
10 The Assembling of Language -
11 Kanzi! -
12 Asking Questions so That Animals Can Provide the Right Answers -
13 When Emergents Just Don't Emerge -
14 Animals Count -
15 Brain Business -
16 Processes Basic to Learning and Reinforcement -
17 Harlow's Bridge to Rational Behaviors -
18 Rational Behaviorism -
19 Overview and Perspective - Epilogue
- References
- Recommended Reading
- Index