I believe that the first presentation of schedules of reinforcement (and the serendipitous nature of their discovery) was presented in the B of O (The behavior of organisms: An experimental analysis. New York: Appleton-Century, 1938. ), but I doubt that that had much public impact.
For that I'd nominate: Baby in a box. Ladies' Home Journal, October 1945, pp. 30-31, 135-36, 138. (the Aircrib). Walden Two. New York: Macmillan, 1948. Beyond freedom and dignity. New York: Knopf, 1971. On Dec 27, 2009, at 10:09 AM, Christopher D. Green wrote: > Britt, Michael wrote: >> The Technique of Correlation is developed 1890 > > I thought the Pearson r wasn't published until the first years of > the 20th century. What publication did you have in mind? And if > you're going to include the correlation coefficient, why not the t- > test (Gossett, aka "Student") and ANOVA (Fisher)? > >> Animal Intelligence (Law of Effect is developed) - Edward >> Thorndike - 1898 > > As I recall, the Law od Effect didn't appear explicitly until the > expanded 1911 version of Animal Intelligence (the book). The 1898 > version was just his dissertation, published, I think, in _Psych > Monographs_. > > [....] >> >> Conditioned Reflexes - Pavlov 1927 > What of Skinner's "schedules of reinforcement"? Is that too obscure > for your needs? I think they appeared in his 1938 book _Behavior of > Organisms_ (but the may have appeared earlier in an article). Paul Brandon Emeritus Professor of Psychology Minnesota State University, Mankato paul.bran...@mnsu.edu --- To make changes to your subscription contact: Bill Southerly (bsouthe...@frostburg.edu)