The Dynamics of Behavior

THE S‐R ISSUE: ITS STATUS IN BEHAVIOR ANALYSIS AND IN DONAHOE AND PALMER'S LEARNING AND COMPLEX BEHAVIOR

“…Stated more generally, real-time neural network simulations implement a dynamical systems approach to the interpretation of behavior (cf. Galbicka, 1992). In a fully realized simulation, the simulated processes that change the strengths of connections, or ''connection weights,'' and the durations of time steps are tightly constrained by independent experimental analyses of neuroscience and behavior (e.g., Buonomano & Merzenich, 1995) and, at a minimum, are consistent with what is known about such processes.…”

Culturo-behavioral Hypercycles and the Metacontingency: Incorporating Self-Organizing Dynamics into an Expanded Model of Cultural Change

“…If, however, we examine the dynamic relationship and pattern of response between a given behavior and the consequences that follow, then we may be able to observe and define schedules and/or patterns of reinforcement that may create the kind of nonlinear dynamics between force and flux required for self-organization (and which may not). For example (and this is purely speculative at this point), the lack of gross temporal variation in behavior governed by interval schedules of reinforcement (see Galbicka, 1992) may indicate that these schedules may not be able to create such dynamics. Further, Baum (1992) asserted that as response rates rise in variable interval schedules reinforcement rates cease to increase, leading to a feedback function that is negatively accelerated.…”

Interpreting Verbal Behavior

“…A subset of scientific verbal behavior -adaptive neural networks -has been devised specifically to capture the parallel, interacting, and dynamic character of multiple, time-varying processes (cf. Galbicka, 1992). General descriptions of neural networks have been given elsewhere (e.g., Donahoe, 1997;Donahoe, Burgos, & Palmer, 1993;cf.…”