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Probability Relations within Response Sequences under Ratio Reinforcement.

Francis Mechner
- 01 Apr 1958 - 
- Vol. 1, Iss: 2, pp 109-121
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This article is published in Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior.The article was published on 1958-04-01 and is currently open access. It has received 264 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Reinforcement.

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The Innate Mind: Structure and Contents

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A mental model for early arithmetic

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The role of temporal discriminations in the reinforcement of sidman avoidance behavior

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Symbols and quantities in parietal cortex: elements of a mathematical theory of number representation and manipulation

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The Behavior of Organisms

B. F. Skinner
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On the classification of reinforcement schedules

TL;DR: I am indebted to Professor Lighthill for some further illuminating remarks regarding this point and his comments on Heisenberg's Theory of Isotropic Turbulence are highly illuminating.