Equivalence Relations and Behavior: A Research Story
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Equivalence Relations and Behavior: A Research Story is a seminal behavioral psychology book by Murray Sidman that chronicles the development of stimulus equivalence research and its implications for understanding complex human behavior.
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Target entity: Equivalence Relations and Behavior: A Research Story Context triple: [Murray Sidman, wrote, Equivalence Relations and Behavior: A Research Story]
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Target entity: Equivalence Relations and Behavior: A Research Story Target entity description: Equivalence Relations and Behavior: A Research Story is a seminal behavioral psychology book by Murray Sidman that chronicles the development of stimulus equivalence research and its implications for understanding complex human behavior.
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A.
The Architecture of Theories
The Architecture of Theories is an 1891 philosophical essay by Charles Sanders Peirce that outlines his evolutionary, realist, and scientific approach to metaphysics and the structure of scientific theories.
-
B.
Reality as Social Process
Reality as Social Process is a major philosophical work by Charles Hartshorne that develops a process-oriented, relational view of reality within the tradition of process theology and metaphysics.
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C.
Toward a General Theory of Action
Toward a General Theory of Action is a foundational sociological work that systematically outlines a comprehensive framework for understanding human action and social systems.
-
D.
The Problem of Realization
The Problem of Realization is a section of Rosa Luxemburg’s Marxist economic work that examines how capitalist production can be converted into money through sales, focusing on the difficulties of realizing surplus value in capitalist markets.
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E.
Metapatterns: Across Space, Time, and Mind
Metapatterns: Across Space, Time, and Mind is a book by biologist Tyler Volk that explores recurring structural and organizational patterns shared across biological, physical, and cognitive systems.
- F. None of above. chosen
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behavior analysis book
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book ⓘ psychology book ⓘ |
| aimsTo |
clarify the nature of equivalence relations in behavior
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show how complex behavior can arise from basic behavioral processes ⓘ |
| author | Murray Sidman ⓘ |
| contribution |
integration of basic research with conceptual analysis in behavior analysis
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systematic account of stimulus equivalence as a behavioral phenomenon ⓘ |
| describes |
development of stimulus equivalence research
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experimental foundations of equivalence relations ⓘ implications of equivalence relations for human behavior ⓘ |
| documents |
historical development of equivalence research
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key experiments on emergent relations ⓘ |
| field |
behavior analysis
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behavioral psychology ⓘ experimental analysis of behavior ⓘ |
| focusesOn |
Sidman’s experimental work on equivalence
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behavior-analytic interpretation of complex cognition ⓘ laboratory studies of symbolic behavior ⓘ |
| genre |
research monograph
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scientific narrative ⓘ |
| hasPerspective | radical behaviorism ⓘ |
| influencedField |
applied behavior analysis
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behavior analysis ⓘ behavioral approaches to language and cognition ⓘ behavioral psychology ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| relatedTo |
Sidman’s matching-to-sample experiments
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behavioral accounts of symbolic and conceptual behavior ⓘ stimulus equivalence paradigm ⓘ |
| topic |
complex human behavior
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conditional discrimination ⓘ emergent behavior ⓘ equivalence relations ⓘ language-related behavior ⓘ matching-to-sample procedures ⓘ stimulus equivalence ⓘ symbolic functioning ⓘ |
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