V. Theoretical Accounts Of Operant Conditioning
A. The Nature Of Reinforcement
1.
Reinforcement Is Drive Reduction: Hull
a. Conditions
b. Problems
i. Latent Learning: Tolman & Honzik
ii. Absence of a Response: McNamara, Long, & Wike
iii. Place vs. Response Learning
a) Tolman & Honzik: Cognitive Maps
b) Morris, Garrud, Rawlins, & O'Keefe: The Morris Maze
c) Menzel
iv. Functional Responding: Macfarlane
v. Reinforcement & Drive Stimuli: Miller & Kessen
vi. Non-Nutritive Reinforcement: Butler, Sheffield &
Roby, etc.
vii. Non-Reductive Reinforcement: Sheffield, Wulff, &
Backer
2.
Reinforcement Changes The Stimulus Configuration: Guthrie
a. Conditions
b. Predictions
B. Contextual
Reinforcement
Theories
1.
Optimal StimulationTheory
2.
The Premack Principle
3. The Response Deprivation Hypothesis
C.
Reinforcement & Expectancy Theories
1.
Tolman's Expectancy Theory
2.
Bandura & Observational Learning
3. Expectancies In Avoidance Learning: Seligman &
Johnston