SEBAC Psychology Server

Index of Pages

SouthEastern Behavior Analysis Center

Jacksonville State University, Jacksonville Alabama

• Preface
  
• ECBasic Language Reference
  
• ECBasic Networking
  
• IBM/PC Parallel Port Adaptor
  
• Experiment Controller Hardware descriptions
  
• Board Schematics
  
• Datafile format descriptions
  

• Research Methods Table of Contents
  
  • Preface
    
  • Chapter 1: The Logical Foundations of Psychology
    
    • Relevance of Science to Discovery and Application Fields of Psychology
      
    • The Nature of Explanation
      
    • Characterization of What Science Is and Does (its definition)
      
  • Chapter 2: Paradigmatic Psychology
    
    • Relevance of a Paradigmatic Framework
      
    • The Context Within Which Science Exists
      
    • The Paradigmatic Context of Psychology Within Science
      
  • Chapter 3: Sources of Knowledge
    
    • Conceptual Precursor: Knowledge of What? What is Knowledge?
      
    • Knowledge is Covariance
      
    • Issues Pertaining to Knowledge
      
    • "Knowledge" Erroneously Attributed to Transcendental Realization
      
    • Knowledge Gained Through Actual Experience (Empirical Research)
      
    • Knowledge Gained Through Vicarious Experience
      
  • Chapter 4: The Contribution of Knowledge to the Field of Psychology
    
    • Why Perform Experiments
      
    • Sources of Problems to Solve
      
    • Activities Which Solve Problems and Produce Better Knowledge
      
    • The Process of Discovery
      
    • Writing-up Research Discoveries
      
    • Sample Paper with Annotations
      
  • Chapter 5: Optimization of Research
    
    • Reliability Maximization
      
    • Generality Maximization
      
    • Detectability Maximization
      
    • Meaningfulness Maximization
      
• Observables, Inference, and Behaviorism
  
• Introductory Paradigmatic Overview
  
  • Precursor
    
  • Molarity of Interest
    
  • Time Scale of Interest
    
  • Goals
    
  • Explanatory Anchor
    
  • Research Preparation
    
    • Precursor
      
    • Subject and Apparatus
      
    • Procedure
      
  • Epistemology
    
  • Summary
    
• Organization in Time: < 1 second timescale
  
  • Overview
    
  • Display format
    
  • Stylized data
    
  • Recurrent model
    
  • Sequential Analysis
    
  • Dynamics in the Fine Structure of Schedule Controlled Behavior
    
• Organization in Time: 1 Minute timescale
  
  • Precursor
    
    • Problematic phenomenon
      
    • Potential explanations
      
    • Experimental test
      
  • Evaluating Existing Paradigmatic Explanations
    
    • Error/artifact/aberrant
      
    • Transitory effect
      
    • Non-associative
      
      • Hue generalization
        
      • Temporal generalization
        
      • Sign Tracking with an Interfood Clock
        
    • Associative
      
  • Functional Analysis
    
    • Parameter Variation
      
      • CS
        
      • US
        
      • Serial Conditioning as a function of Interfood Clock
        
    • Context of Reinforcement
      
      • response
        
      • stimulus
        
      • time
        
      • Serial Conditioning as a Function of Stimulus, Response, and Temporal Dependencies
        
    • Nature of Control
      
      • Bipolar Control in Fixed Interfood Intervals
        
    • Concurrent Interactions
      
      • Real Time Dynamics in the Interaction betwen a Trial Stimulus and its Temporal Context
        
    • Functional Model
      
• Organization of Behavior in Time: ca. 1 hour timescale
  
  • Within Session Rate Changes
    
    • Introduction
      
    • Explicit Stimulus Factors
      
    • Schedule and Reinforcement Rate
      
    • Food Access
      
    • Discussion
      
• Organization of Behavior in Time: 1 Day Timescale
  
  • Daily Feeding Behavior
    
    • Light Cycle Controlled Weight Changes in Pigeons
      
    • Light Cycle Controlled Feeding and Weight Changes in Pigeons
      
  • Daily Adjunctive, Feeding Related, Behavior
    
    • Stereotyped Adjunctive Pecking by Caged Pigeons
      
• Organization of Behavior in Time: > 1 Month Timescale
  
  • Long Term Behavior Changes
    
    • Dynamics in the Fine Structure of Schedule Controlled Behavior
      
• Other Research
  
  • Adjunctive Behavior
    
    • Stereotyped Adjunctive Pecking by Caged Pigeons
      
• Schedule Controlled Weight Changes
  
  • Schedule Controlled Changes in Weight in Pigeons