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| Foreword | |
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| Preface | |
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| A Science of Behavior: Perspective, History, and Assumptions | |
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| Science and behavior | |
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| New directions: Behavior analysis and neuroscience | |
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| Focus on: B. F. Skinner | |
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| A brief history of behavior analysis | |
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| Science and behavior: Some assumptions | |
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| Chapter summary | |
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| The Experimental Analysis of Behavior | |
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| Functional analysis of behavior | |
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| Functional analysis of the environment | |
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| Tactics of behavioral research | |
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| Focus on: Operant baselines and behavioral neuroscience | |
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| Single-subject research | |
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| Focus on: Assessment of behavior change | |
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| Advanced section: Perceiving as behavior | |
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| Chapter summary | |
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| Reflexive Behavior and Respondent Conditioning | |
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| Phylogenetic behavior | |
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| Ontogenetic behavior | |
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| Temporal relations and conditioning | |
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| Second-order respondent conditioning | |
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| On the applied side: Drug use, abuse, and complexities of respondent conditioning | |
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| Note on: Physiology and the control of preparatory responses by conditioned stimuli | |
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| Advanced section: Complex conditioning | |
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| Aspects of complex conditioning | |
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| The Rescorla-Wagner model of conditioning | |
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| Focus on: The Rescorla-Wagner equation | |
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| Chapter summary | |
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| Reinforcement and Extinction of Operant Behavior | |
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| Operant behavior | |
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| Focus on: Rewards and intrinsic motivation | |
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| Operant conditioning | |
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| Focus on: Behavioral neuroscience and operant conditioning of the neuron | |
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| Focus on: Reinforcement and problem solving | |
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| Extinction | |
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| Note on: Remembering and recalling | |
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| On the applied side: Extinction of temper tantrums | |
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| Chapter summary | |
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| Schedules of Reinforcement | |
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| Importance of schedules of reinforcement | |
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| C. B. Ferster: Schedules of reinforcement | |
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| Focus on: Science and behavior analysis | |
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| Comment on: Inner causes, schedules, and response patterns | |
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| Focus on: A system of notation | |
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| Schedules of positive reinforcement | |
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| Ratio and interval schedules of reinforcement | |
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| Focus on: Generality of schedule effects | |
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| Note on: VI schedules, reinforcement rate, and behavioral momentum | |
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| Schedule performance in transition | |
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| On the applied side: Schedules and cigarettes | |
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| Advanced section: Schedule performance | |
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| Chapter summary | |
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| Aversive Control of Behavior | |
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| Contingencies of punishment | |
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| Quick tip: Procedures to reduce rate of response | |
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| Focus on: Use of punishment in treatment | |
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| Contingencies of negative reinforcement | |
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| Focus on: An analysis of avoidance behavior | |
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| Side effects of aversive procedures | |
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| Focus on: Social defeat, aversion to social contact, and behavioral neuroscience | |
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| On the applied side: Coercion and its fallout | |
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| Note on: The definition of coercion | |
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| Chapter summary | |
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| Operant-Respondent Interrelationships and the Biological Context of Conditioning | |
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| Analysis of operant-respondent contingencies | |
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| Note on: Operants and respondents | |
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| The biological context of conditioning | |
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| Focus on: Behavioral neuroscience, taste aversion, and urges for addictive behavior | |
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| On the applied side: Activity anorexia and interrelations between eating and physical activity | |
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| Advanced section: The nature of autoshaped responses | |
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| Chapter summary | |
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| Stimulus Control | |
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| Differential reinforcement and discrimination | |
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| Focus on: Stimulus control, neuroscience, and what birds see | |
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| Stimulus control and multiple schedules | |
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| Focus on: Discrimination and the "bird-brained" pigeon | |
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| Focus on: Determinants of behavioral contrast | |
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| Generalization | |
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| Errorless discrimination and fading | |
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| Complex stimulus control | |
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| Focus on: Concept formation by pigeons | |
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| On the applied side: The pigeon as a quality control inspector | |
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| Chapter summary | |
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| Choice and Preference | |
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| Experimental analysis of choice and preference | |
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| The matching law | |
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| Choice, foraging, and behavioral economics | |
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| Focus on: Activity anorexia and substitutability of food and wheel running | |
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| Matching and single-operant schedules of reinforcement | |
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| On the applied side: Application of the quantitative law of effect | |
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| Advanced section: Quantification of choice and generalized matching | |
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| Focus on behavioral neuroscience, matching, and sensitivity | |
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| Chapter summary | |
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| Conditioned Reinforcement | |
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| Note on: Clicker training | |
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| Chain schedules and conditioned reinforcement | |
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| Focus on: Backward chaining | |
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| Determinants of conditioned reinforcement | |
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| Focus on: Behavioral neuroscience and conditioned reinforcement | |
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| Delay reduction and conditioned reinforcement | |
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| Generalized conditioned reinforcement | |
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| On the applied side: The token economy | |
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| Advanced section: Quantification and delay reduction | |
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| Chapter summary | |
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| Correspondence Relations: Imitation and Rule-Governed Behavior | |
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| Correspondence and observational learning | |
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| Focus on: Behavioral neuroscience, mirror neurons, and imitation | |
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| On the applied side: Training generalized imitation | |
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| Focus on: Rules, observational learning, and self-efficacy | |
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| Rule-governed behavior | |
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| Focus on: Instructions and contingencies | |
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| Focus on: Following rules and joint control | |
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| Chapter summary | |
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| Verbal Behavior | |
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| Language and verbal behavior | |
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| Focus on: Speaking and evolution of the vocal tract | |
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| Verbal behavior: Some basic distinctions | |
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| Operant functions of verbal behavior | |
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| Research on verbal behavior | |
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| Additional verbal relations: Intraverbals, echoics, and textuals | |
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| Analysis of complex behavior in the laboratory | |
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| Focus on: Reports of private events by pigeons | |
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| Symbolic behavior and stimulus equivalence | |
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| Focus on: Behavioral neuroscience and derived conceptual relations | |
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| On the applied side: Three-term contingencies and natural speech | |
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| Advanced section: A formal analysis of manding and tacting | |
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| Chapter summary | |
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| Applied Behavior Analysis | |
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| Characteristics of applied behavior analysis | |
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| Research in applied behavior analysis | |
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| Focus on: Personalized system of instruction and precision teaching | |
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| Applications of behavior principles | |
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| Focus on: Autism, mirror neurons, and applied behavior analysis | |
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| The causes and prevention of behavior problems | |
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| Focus on: Conditioned overeating and childhood obesity | |
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| On the applied side: MammaCare-detection and prevention of breast cancer | |
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| Chapter summary | |
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| Three Levels of Selection: Biology, Behavior, and Culture | |
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| Evolution and natural selection | |
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| Focus on: Genetic control of a fixed action pattern | |
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| Selection by reinforcement | |
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| The selection and evolution of culture | |
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| Focus on: Metacontingencies | |
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| Chapter summary | |
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| Glossary | |
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| References | |
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| Author index | |
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| Subject index | |