The Response-Stimulus Contingency and Reinforcement Learning as a Context for Considering Two Non-Behavior-Analytic Views of Contingency Learning

摘要: This paper introduces a special section on the contingency. Bower and Watson were invited to present their views of contingency learning in human infants from outside context behavior analysis, Cigales, Marr, Lattal Shahan provided commentaries that point out some more interesting controversial aspects those behavior-analytic perspective. The debate turns how conceptualize response-stimulus operant learning. concept detection by subjects, as well research practices which dependency between infant responding presentation environmental consequences may be disrupted through procedures ordinarily consequent events occur before response or its absence. These points can relate serve an introduction papers three follow.