I believe that the first presentation of schedules of reinforcement
(and the serendipitous nature of their discovery) was presented in
the B of O (The behavior of organisms: An experimental analysis. New
York: Appleton-Century, 1938. ), but I doubt that that had much
public impact.
For that I'd nominate:
Baby in a box. Ladies' Home Journal, October 1945, pp. 30-31,
135-36, 138. (the Aircrib).
Walden Two. New York: Macmillan, 1948.
Beyond freedom and dignity. New York: Knopf, 1971.
On Dec 27, 2009, at 10:09 AM, Christopher D. Green wrote:
> Britt, Michael wrote:
>> The Technique of Correlation is developed 1890
>
> I thought the Pearson r wasn't published until the first years of
> the 20th century. What publication did you have in mind? And if
> you're going to include the correlation coefficient, why not the t-
> test (Gossett, aka "Student") and ANOVA (Fisher)?
>
>> Animal Intelligence (Law of Effect is developed) - Edward
>> Thorndike - 1898
>
> As I recall, the Law od Effect didn't appear explicitly until the
> expanded 1911 version of Animal Intelligence (the book). The 1898
> version was just his dissertation, published, I think, in _Psych
> Monographs_.
>
> [....]
>>
>> Conditioned Reflexes - Pavlov 1927
> What of Skinner's "schedules of reinforcement"? Is that too obscure
> for your needs? I think they appeared in his 1938 book _Behavior of
> Organisms_ (but the may have appeared earlier in an article).
Paul Brandon
Emeritus Professor of Psychology
Minnesota State University, Mankato
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