I just checked Skinner's "Case History" and no date is given to the cartoon. The paper was published in 1956 so the cartoon can't have been done after 1956. The cartoon is definitely an operant conditioning procedure (as opposed to maze-learning, etc.) and likely reflects the influence of Fred Keller.
Ken -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Kenneth M. Steele, Ph. D. steel...@appstate.edu Professor and Assistant Chairperson Department of Psychology http://www.psych.appstate.edu Appalachian State University Boone, NC 28608 USA ------------------------------------------------------------------------ On 8/23/2011 11:17 AM, John Kulig wrote: > > > > Mike and others still interested in when the Jester published the > Skinner cartoon ... > > The date of 1928 for that cartoon "Boy, have I got this guy > conditioned ..." did seem out of whack, yet it appears all over the > place. Skinner got his MA and PhD from Harvard in 1930 and 1931. His > "Case History in Scientific Method" describes the evolution of the > runway into an "operant" type device while at Harvard, including type > of cumulative record. His earliest publications are: > > On the conditions of elicitation of certain eating reflexes. > Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 1930, 16, 433-38. > > On the inheritance of maze behavior. Journal of General Psychology, > 1930, 4, 342-46. > > The progressive increase in the geotropic response of the ant > Aphaenogaster. Journal of General Psychology, 1930, 4, 102-12. > > The concept of the reflex in the description of behavior. Journal of > General Psychology, 1931, 5, 427-58. > > > So 1928 seems unlikely if not totally implausible. I think "The > Behavior of Organisms" may nail it down better. Will try to find ... > > having a hard time letting this issue go! > > John K > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > *From: *"Mike Palij" <m...@nyu.edu> > *To: *"Teaching in the Psychological Sciences (TIPS)" > <tips@fsulist.frostburg.edu> > *Cc: *"Mike Palij" <m...@nyu.edu> > *Sent: *Sunday, August 21, 2011 8:49:49 PM > *Subject: *re: [tips] info: > > On Sun, 21 Aug 2011 13:16:07 -0700, John Kulig wrote regarding > the cartoon showing two rats saying "Boy, have I got this guy > conditioned...":vad > >Yes it appeared in cumulative record .... memory says - don't quote - > that it > >originally appeared in the columbia university student paper The > Jester in 1928 > > It is Figure 17 in "Cumulative Record", around page 122 (I can't find my > hardcopy of CR but a snippet view of CR is available on books.google.com > and that's where I got my info). > > However, where the cartoon originally appeared and when is a bit more > troublesome. From what is provided in CR and several other sources where > the cartoon is provided, it refers to the Columbia "Jester" as the > source but > there is no reference for it nor a date. > > Technically, the source is likely to be the "Jester of Columbia", which is > more of a magazine than a newspaper. It was first published on April 1, > 1901 and it appears that it became defunct last year. There is a website > for the magazine but it has not been kept up to date; see: > http://jesterofcolumbia.net/page/3/ > > A Worldcat search of libraries showed that the NY Public Library (the > one on 42nd St and 5th Avenue, the one with the lions out front and > which was used for such movies as "Ghostbusters" and "Day After > Tomorrow") has a couple of volumes and a note that says that around > 1955 the name was changed to "The Jester". I was surprised that > Columbia's library did not show up but I'll go to Clio later to see if > they have a complete run somewhere. > > I'm curious about the date of publication for the cartoon. My first > reaction to the 1928 date was "who was conditioning rats in 1928?" > If I'm not mistaken, Skinner wrote about conditioning with rats in the > mid- to late 1930s (e.g., "The Behavior of Organisms"). I was also > under the impression the Skinner was the first to do research on > rats and bar-pressing. Perhaps John got the date wrong. However, > this raises the question of what is the actual date of the cartoon's > publication? Do any Tipsters know? > > Or does this initiate another "Great Hunt" for the reference for the > cartoon? ;-) > > -Mike Palij > New York University > m...@nyu.edu > > > --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: arch...@jab.org. To unsubscribe click here: http://fsulist.frostburg.edu/u?id=13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df5d5&n=T&l=tips&o=12130 or send a blank email to leave-12130-13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df...@fsulist.frostburg.edu
