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1. Study Questions
2. Classical and Operation Conditioning: Theoretical Considerations (Skinner’s views contrasted with associationism; related to Conditions Required for Selection by Reinforcement, pp. 39 ff)
3. CS-UR Relations and Their Implications (Research demonstrating that the temporal relation of the CS to the UR, not the US, is the critical relation for conditioning in the classical, or Pavlovian, procedure. Thus, conditioning is best conceived as changing the environmental control of behavior with both the classical and operant procedures.)
4. Neural Mechanisms of Reinforcement (Why neural mechanisms of reinforcement are important and a description of some of those mechanisms; related to A Biobehavioral principle of Selection by Reinforcement, pp. 54 ff.)
5. Historical background and future directions of Selectionism (Why it took so long for Darwin’s approach to be accepted in biology, and why those same factors now impede acceptance of selection by reinforcement in psychology.)
6. A Slide-show illustrating how Selection Networks operate.
7. Selection-network simulations of several conditioning phenomena
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