The Selector in Behavior Selection.
Decades of research show how what we know about learned reinforcers, as the selectors of behavior, constitutes a significant advancement in behavior analysis. I describe how the learning of new reinforcers results in new operants including verbal operants and verbal developmental cusps, as well as t...
| Publicado en: | Psychological Record Vol. 70; no. 4; pp. 543 - 559 |
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Springer Nature
2020
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