The Psychological Record back issues from September 2007:
Postreinforcement pause in grocery shopping: comparing interpurchase times across products and consumers.(Author abstract)
Sep 22, 2007; ... The concept of reinforcement is central to operant theory. When interpreted as an operation rather than a process, it has been usually defined as the delivery of a reinforcer when a response occurs (Catania, 1998; Skinner, 1953). A reinforcer, in turn, is commonly defined as any event that ...
Attenuation and enhancement of compliance with experimental demand characteristics.(Report)
Sep 22, 2007; ... The demand characteristics of a study (Orne, 1962, 1970) are uncontrolled cues that prompt participants to perform the kinds of behavior that the researcher has hypothesized. In addition to complicating the data analysis, demand characteristics potentially undermine the generalizability of ...
Deictic relational complexity and the development of deception.(Report)
Sep 22, 2007; ... Deception is defined as the intentional deceit or misleading of a second party to influence that party's behavior (Heyes, 1988). Arguably the most well researched approach to deception thus far is by researchers working under the rubric of Theory of Mind (ToM; e.g., Baron-Cohen, ...
Books received.
Sep 22, 2007 ... ADAMS, L. D., & KIROVA, A. (2007). Global migration and education. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates. Pp. 349. PB $120.00. BERRYMAN, J., OCKLEFORD, E., HOWELLS, K., HARGREAVES, D., & WILDBUR, D. (2006). Psychology and you: An informal introduction. Malden, MA: Blackwell ...
Knowing me, knowing you: deictic complexity in false-belief understanding.(Report)
Sep 22, 2007; ... False-belief understanding may be defined as the ability to know that someone can have a misconception about an event (Baron-Cohen, Tager-Flusberg, & Cohen, 2000). Consider the following example of a task used by Sabbagh and Taylor (2000) to test for false belief: <Pre> Ben put ...
The differential effect of instructions on dysphoric and nondysphoric persons.(Report)
Sep 22, 2007; ... Rule-governed behavior has been defined as actions controlled by means of verbal stimuli (i.e., spoken or written instructions, self-talk, etc.) that describe contingencies of reinforcement (Skinner, 1953, 1969), and researchers have attempted to describe differences between behaviors ...
Disrupting verbal processes: cognitive defusion in acceptance and commitment therapy and other mindfulness-based psychotherapies.(Report)
Sep 22, 2007; ... The notion of "stimulus function" has been a central characteristic of behavioral psychology since relatively early on. Kantor (1938) noted a distinction between a stimulus object and stimulus function, with the latter referring to the effect a stimulus has on a subsequent response. Kantor ...
Pursuing the Pavlovian contributions to induction in rats responding for 1% sucrose reinforcement.(Report)
Sep 22, 2007; ... Induction is said to occur when the rate of operant responding in one situation varies directly with changes in the conditions of reinforcement in another (e.g., Weatherly, Stout, McMurry, Rue, & Melville, 1999). For instance, Weatherly et al. (1999) showed that rats' rate of lever ...
Psychometric properties of the Revised Mathematics Anxiety Rating Scale.(Report)
Sep 22, 2007; ... Interest in mathematics anxiety started with the observations of mathematics teachers in the early 1950s. In 1957, Dreger and Aiken introduced mathematics anxiety as a new term to describe students' attitudinal difficulties with mathematics. They defined it as "the presence of a syndrome ...
Learning and behavior: A contemporary synthesis.(Book review)
Sep 22, 2007; ... BOUTON, MARK E. (2007). Learning and behavior: A contemporary synthesis. Sunderland, MA. Sinauer. Pp. vii + 482. ISBN-13: 978-0-87893-063-0 (hard cover). $94.95 This excellent textbook is directed at an advanced undergraduate or first-year graduate course. It is organized a bit ...
Psychological development and early childhood.(Book review)
Sep 22, 2007; ... OATES, J., WOOD, C., & GRAYSON, A. (2005). Psychological development and early childhood. Oxford, UK: Blackwell Publishing. ISBN 1-4051-1693-5. In their collaboration, Psychological Development and Early Childhood, John Oates, Clare Wood, and Andrew Grayson aim to provide an ...