On Sep 8, 2007, at 12:31 PM, Michael Sylvester wrote:
> Not wanting to face the Beth Benoit Correction Police,can someone
> point me to the reference for Skinner's Informal Principles of
> Learning?
> It might have been an anticle in the American Psychologist.They
> deal with unexpected discoveries while experimentying; apparently
> Skinner
> discovered the partial reinforcement effet when the pellet magazine
> jammed.
>
> Btw,what was Skinner's animal of choice: rats or pigeons?
He discovered it when he was making the pellets himself; there were
none commercially available. To save enormous amount of time
required, he decided to reinforce every second time, etc. He used
rats.
All this is accounted in detail in his "a Case History in Scientific
Research" (I think) in Volume 2 of the "Psychology: a study of a
science" Ed. Koch, commissioned by APA.
Peter
Peter Harzem, B.Sc. (Lond.), Ph.D. Wales
Hudson Professor Emeritus
Auburn University, AL 36849-5214
USA
Phone: + 334 821 0259
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