Recently added articles from The Psychological Record:

Discrimination reversal learning in capuchin monkeys (Cebus apella).(Report)

Jan 01, 2008; Beran, Michael J. ... Reports of cognitive abilities in a variety of animal species have surged in recent years (e.g., Wasserman & Zentall, 2006). Many of these reports emerged from studies with nonhuman primates, and attendant explanations for such abilities center on the large brains, complex social groups, ...

Reversal learning set and functional equivalence in children with and without autism.(Author abstract)

Jan 01, 2008; Lionello-DeNolf, Karen M. ... The capability of behaving organisms to respond to physically dissimilar stimuli as if they are the same has been of considerable interest to researchers who study both human and nonhuman beings from various theoretical and methodological perspectives (e.g., human and nonhuman cognitive ...

Scopolamine effects under a titrating-delayed-nonmatching-to-position procedure.(Author abstract)

Jan 01, 2008; Porritt, M. ... Discrete-trial delayed-matching-to-sample (DMTS) procedures and variants thereof have been used for decades to assess working memory in human beings and other animals (Paule et al., 1998; Pontecorvo and Clissold, 1992). A prototypical DMTS procedure involves presenting one of a number of ...

Shifts in postdiscrimination gradients within a stimulus dimension based on female waist-to-hip ratios.(Author abstract)(Report)

Jan 01, 2008; Derenne, Adam ... Stimulus generalization describes instances in which a response appropriate to one stimulus (S+) occurs in the presence of other, similar stimuli. The degree to which generalization occurs is determined, in part, by the learning history of the organism. For example, the generalization ...

The effects of reward omission and change on proactive interference in spatial alternation.(Author abstract)

Jan 01, 2008; Terry, William Scott ... Proactive interference (PI) refers to a decline in recall across a series of trials that involve the same or similar to-be-remembered stimuli. Release from PI occurs when the target stimulus, or the subject's processing of the target, is altered and recall accuracy is reinstated. PI in ...

A transformation of functions in accordance with the nonarbitrary relational properties of sexual stimuli.(Author abstract)(Report)

Jan 01, 2008; Roche, Bryan ... Research on derived stimulus relations has shown that if a verbally able human being is trained, in a matching-to-sample context, to match A to B and B to C, he or she will also likely match B to A and C to B (symmetry), A to C (transitivity), and C to A (equivalence) without reinforcement ...

Stimulus relations analysis and the emergence of novel intraverbals.(Author abstract)

Jan 01, 2008; Perez-Gonzalez, Luis Antonio ... Researchers in two areas of behavior analysis have studied the appearance of complex verbal behavior: One area consists of research in stimulus equivalence and stimulus relations, and the other encompasses the study of independence and transfer among verbal operants according to Skinner's ...

They should have thought about the consequences: the crisis of cognitivism and a second chance for behavior analysis.

Jan 01, 2008; Overskeid, Geir ... When psychology was being changed and redefined in the late 1950s and the 1960s, many psychologists saw new possibilities arising from the "cognitive revolution" and started practicing cognitive psychology. Others thought the science had little to gain from the study of unobservable mental ...

History of psychology: A cultural perspective.(Critical essay)

Jan 01, 2008; Smith, Noel W. ... O'BOYLE, CHERIE G. (2006). History of psychology: A cultural perspective. Mahwah, NJ: Erlbaum. Pp. xxiv + 402. ISBN 0-8058-5610-2. $39.95 PB. As the subtitle indicates, this book is an attempt to present the history of psychology in its social, ...

Critical thinking in psychology.(Critical essay)

Jan 01, 2008; Zentall, Thomas R. ... STERNBERG, R. J., ROEDIGER, H. L., & HALPERN, D. F. (Eds.). (2007). Critical thinking in psychology. New York: Cambridge University Press. Pp. v + 340. ISBN 0-521-60834-1. $24.99 PB. We all encourage our students to use critical thinking, but ...