The Experimental Analysis of Behavior text was used in a graduate EAB course. The first 8 chapters enabled students to understand: 1)why and how behavior analysis came to ask the questions it does; 2)what procedures are thought to provide answers and why; and 3)the boundaries of EAB with respect to epistemology, unit of analysis, and time scale of adaptation. This material was based on an overview of, and was a derivitive of, several texts of the origin/history of behaviorism and theories of learning. The subsequent three chapters exemplified paradigmatic EAB by providing a comprehensive and systematic "explanation" for understanding short time scale adaptation. The final two chapters reviewed the two mechanisms of action instantiating short time scale adaptation in order to provide a foundation and point of departure for student presentations on the specific research area of their choice. These presentations and ensuing discussions were the focus of the course. The text was intended as a quick preparation that enabled the presentations and ensuing discussions to be productive.

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