Learning and Behavior Change Programming

Glossary of Behavior analysis terms. http://web.utk.edu/~wverplan/gt57/glayout.html


Glossary of Terms for the Experimental Analysis of Behavior. http://www.psychology.uiowa.edu/Faculty/wasserman/Glossary/homepage.html


Articles on Principles of Learning (Including behavior change programming)


Adler, L. L., and Adler, H.E. (1977). Ontogeny of observational learning in the dog (Canis familiaris). Developmental Psychobiology, 10(3), 267-271.


American_Veterinary_Society_of_Animal_Behavior. (2007). Guidelines on the Use of Punishment for Dealing with Behavior Problems in Animals [Electronic Version]. AVSAB. Retrieved November 24, 2007 from http://www.avsabonline.org/avsabonline/images/stories/punishment%20guidelines-aversives%20effects-definitions.pdf.


An Animal Trainer's Introduction To Operant and Classical Conditioning. http://www.wagntrain.com/OC/


Azrin, N. H., Holz, W. C., Hake, D. F., & Ayllon, T. (1963). Fixed-ratio escape reinforcement. J Exp Anal Behav, 6, 449-456.


Azrin, N. H., Hutchinson, R. R., & Hake, D. F. (1967). Attack, avoidance, and escape reactions to aversive shock. J Exp Anal Behav, 10(2), 131-148.


Azrin, N. H., Hutchinson, R. R., & McLaughlin, R. (1965). The Opportunity for Aggression as an Operant Reinforcer During Aversive Stimulation. J Exp Anal Behav, 8, 171-180.


Balaban, M. T., Rhodes, D. L., & Neuringer, A. (1990). Orienting and defense responses to punishment: effects on learning. Biological Psychology, 30, 203-217.


Barros-Loscertales, A., Meseguer, V., Sanjuan, A., Belloch, V., Parcet, M. A., Torrubia, R., et al. (2006). Behavioral Inhibition System activity is associated with increased amygdala and hippocampal gray matter volume: A voxel-based morphometry study. Neuroimage, 33(3), 1011-1015.


Bloom, P. (2004). Behavior. Can a dog learn a word? Science, 304(5677), 1605-1606.


Branch, M. N. (2001). Are responses in avoidance procedures "safety" signals? J Exp Anal Behav, 75(3), 351-354; discussion 367-378.


Brush, F. R., Baron, S., Froehlich, J.C., Ison, J.R., Pellegrino, L.J., Phillips, D.S., Sakellaris, L.J., and Williams, V.N. (1985). Genetic differences in avoidance learning by Rattus norvegicusL escape/avoidance responding, discrimination learning, and open-field behavior. Journal of Comparative Psychology, 99(1), 60-73.


Brush, F. R., Paine, S.N.D., Pellegrino, L.J., Rykaszewski, I.M., Dess, N.K., and Collins, P.Y. (1988). CER suppression, passive-avoidance learning, and stress-induced suppression of drinking in the Syracuse high- and low-avoidance straints of rats (Rattus norgegicus). Journal of Comparative Psychology, 102(4), 337-349.


Carr, J. E., Coriaty, S., Wilder, D.A., Gaunt, B.T., Dozier, C.L., Britton, L.N., Avina, C., and Reed, C.L. (2000). A review of "noncontingent" reinforcement as treatment for aberrant behavior of individuals with developmental disabilities. Research in Developmenal Disabilities, 21, 377-391.


Catania, A. C. (1999). Thorndike's legacy: Learning, selection, and the law of effect. Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior, 72(3), 425-428.


Clark, R. E., & Squire, L. R. (1998). Classical conditioning and brain systems: the role of awareness. Science, 280(5360), 77-81.


Classical Conditioning. http://www.as.wvu.edu/~sbb/comm221/chapters/pavlov.htm


Davison, G. C. (1968). Systematic desensitization as a counter-conditioning process. J Abnorm Psychol, 73(2), 91-99.


Dawson, B. V., & Foss, B. M. (1965). Observational learning in budgerigars. Anim Behav, 13(4), 470-474.


De Houwer, J., Crombez, G., & Baeyens, F. (2005). Avoidance behavior can function as a negative occasion setter. J Exp Psychol Anim Behav Process, 31(1), 101-106.


Dennett, D. C. (1993). Learning and Labeling (commentary on A. Clark and A. Karmiloff-Smith, "The Cognizer's Innards"), Mind and Language, 8, (4), 540-547, Winter 1993. Mind and Language at http://cogprints.soton.ac.uk/.../learn&la.htm, 8(4), 540-547.


Delprato, D. J. (1981). The constructional approach to behavioral modification. J Behav Ther Exp Psychiatry, 12(1), 49-55.


del Rosal, E., Alonso, L., Moreno, R., Vazquez, M., & Santacreu, J. (2006). Simulation of habituation to simple and multiple stimuli. Behav Processes, 73(3), 272-277.


Duddley, R. T., and Papini, M.R. (1995). Pavlovian performance of rats following unexpected reward omissions. Learning and Motivation, 26, 63-82.


Egbochuku, E. O., & Obodo, B. O. (n.d.). Effects of systematic desensitization (SD) therapy on reduction of test anxiety among adolescents in nigerian schools. Journal of Instructional Psychology, 32(4), 298-304.


Eisenberger, R., and Cameron, J. (1996). Detrimental effects of Reward. American Psychologist, 51(11), 1153-1166.


Eisenberger, R., Heerdt, W. A., Hamdi, M., Zimet, S., & Bruckmeir, G. (1979). Transfer of persistence across behaviors. J Exp Psychol [Hum Learn], 5(5), 522-530.


Gardner, R. (1991). The two modes: agonistic and hedonic. Retrieved April 2006, from http://www.johnprice.me.uk/assets/jp/001/htm/ascap/modes.htm


Gazit, I., Goldblatt, A., & Terkel, J. (2005). The role of context specificity in learning: the effects of training context on explosives detection in dogs. Anim Cogn, 8(3), 143-150.


Goldiamond, I. (2002). Toward a constructional approach to social problems: ethical and constitutional issues raised by applied behavior analysis. Behavior and Social Issues Retrieved September 12, 2005, 11, from http://www.bfsr.org/BSI_11_2/11_2Gold.pdf


Haselgrove, M., & Pearce, J. M. (2003). Facilitation of extinction by an increase or a decrease in trial duration. J Exp Psychol Anim Behav Process, 29(2), 153-166.


Henrich, J., McElreath, R., Barr, A., Ensminger, J., Barrett, C., Bolyanatz, A., et al. (2006). Costly punishment across human societies. Science, 312, 1767-1770.


Heriot, S. A., & Pritchard, M. (2004). 'Reciprocal inhibition as the main effects' by Joseph Wolpe (1954). Clinical Child Psychology and Psychiatry, 9(2), 297-307.


James, W. T. (1954). Secondary reinforced behavior in an operant situation among dogs. J Genet Psychol, 85(1), 129-133.


Jones, M. C. (1924). A laboratory study of fear: A case study of Peter. The Journal of Genetic Psychology, 31(4), 308-315.


Kazdin, A. E., & Wilcoxon, L. A. (1976). Systematic desensitization and nonspecific treatment effects: a methodological evaluation. Psychol Bull, 83(5), 729-758.


Kubinyi, E., Topal, J., Miklosi, A., and Csanyi, V. (2003). Dogs (Canis familiaris) learn from their owners via observation in a manipulation task. Journal of Comparative Psychology, 117(2), 156-165.


Leung, H. T., Bailey, G. K., Laurent, V., & Westbrook, R. F. (2007). Rapid reacquisition of fear to a completely extinguished context is replaced by transient impairment with additional extinction training. J Exp Psychol Anim Behav Process, 33(3), 299-313.


Marcia, J. E., Rubin, B. M., & Efran, J. S. (1969). Systematic desensitization: expectancy change or counterconditioning? J Abnorm Psychol, 74(3), 382-387.


McClockey, M. S., Mitchell, E. B., & Coccaro, E. F. (2005). Providing an escape option reduces retaliatory aggression. Aggressive Behavior, 31, 228-237.


Overall, K. L. (2007). Why electric shock is not behavior modification. Journal of Veterinary Behavior, 2, 1-4.


Pongracz, P., Milklosi, A., Kubinyi, E., Gurobi, K., T., Jozsef, and Csanyi, V. (2001). Social learning in dogs: the effect of a human demonstrator on the performance of dogs in a detour task. Animal Behavior, 62, 1109-1117.


Pongracz, P., Miklosi, A., Tiar-Geng, K., and Csanyi, V. (2003). Interaction between individual experience and social learning in dogs. Animal Behaviour, 65, 595-603.


Pongracz, P., Miklosi, A., Tiar-Geng, K., and Csanyi, V. (2004). Verbal attention getting as a key factor in social learning between dog (Canis familiaris) and human. Journal of Comparative Psychology, 118(4), 375-383.


Rodriguez Manzanares, P. A., Isoardi, N. A., Carrer, H. F., & Molina, V. A. (2005). Previous stress facilitates fear memory, attenuates GABAergic inhibition, and increases synaptic plasticity in the rat basolateral amygdala. J Neurosci, 25(38), 8725-8734.


Rooney, N. J., Gaines, S. A., & Bradshaw, J. W. (2007). Behavioural and glucocorticoid responses of dogs (Canis familiaris) to kennelling: Investigating mitigation of stress by prior habituation. Physiol Behav.


Salzinger, K., & Waller, M. B. (1962). The operant control of vocalization in the dog. J Exp Anal Behav, 5, 383-389.


Schafe, G. E., Nader, K., Blair, H. T., & LeDoux, J. E. (2001). Memory consolidation of Pavlovian fear conditioning: a cellular and molecular perspective. Trends Neurosci, 24(9), 540-546.


Shapovalova, K. B., & Chikhman, V. N. (2003). Comparison of the postural and movement components during learning by dogs of an operant defensive reflex. Neurosci Behav Physiol, 33(7), 685-694.


Sidman, M. (2001). Safe periods both explain and need explanation. Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior, 75, 335-365.


Wolpe, J. (1954). Reciprocal inhibition as the main basis of psychotherapeutic effects. AMA Arch Neurol Psychiatry, 72(2), 205-226.

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