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Item Open Access A dynamic route-finder for the cognitive map.(1998) Reid, A; Staddon, JERCognitive behaviorist E. C. Tolman (1932) proposed many years ago that rats and men navigate with the aid of cognitive maps, but his theory was incomplete. Critic E. R. Guthrie (1935) pointed out that Tolman's maps lack a rule for action, a route finder. We show that a dynamic model for stimulus generalization based on an elementary diffusion process can reproduce the qualitative properties of spatial orientation in animals: area-restricted search in the open field, finding shortcuts,barrier learning (the Umweg problem), spatial "insight" in mazes, and radial maze behavior. The model provides a behavioristic reader for Tolman's cognitive map.Item Open Access Adaptive Behavior and Learning(2010) Staddon, JERItem Open Access Editorial: choice studies in transition.(J Exp Anal Behav, 2010-09) Jozefowiez, J; McDowell, JJ; Staddon, JERItem Open Access FAITH AND GOODNESS: A REPLY TO HOCUTT(2009) Staddon, JERProfessor Hocutt and I agree that David Hume first pointed out that “ought”—what should be done—cannot be derived from “is”—what is the case. Hocutt goes on to claim that “ought,” in fact, derives from factual observation of “what we care about,” which amounts to saying “you should do what you want to do.” This seems to me unsatisfactory as moral philosophy.Item Open Access Faith, Fact, and Behaviorism(BEHAVIOR ANALYST, 2013) Staddon, JERItem Open Access Optimality Analyses of Operant Behavior and their Relation to Optimal Foraging(Limits to Action: The Allocation of Individual Behavior, 1980) Staddon, JERItem Open Access Rapid, accurate time estimation in zebrafish (Danio rerio).(Behav Processes, 2013-10) Cerutti, DT; Jozefowiez, J; Staddon, JERZebrafish were tested in an appetitive Pavlovian delayed conditioning task. After an intertrial interval of k*T s (k=11.25; T=8, 16 or 32 s), a small, translucent vertical pole was illuminated (CS) for T s. Food was presented at T/2 s. Pole-biting response latencies from CS onset were a linear function of the food delay T/2, with slope approximating unity (proportional timing), and standard deviation proportional to latency (scalar timing). Response latencies tracked changes in food delays even when they changed every other day. These findings are significant because the zebrafish genome has recently been sequenced, opening the door to studies in the genetics of interval timing.Item Open Access Rationality, melioration and law-of-effect models for choice(Psychological Science, 1992) Staddon, JERItem Unknown Scientific imperialism and behaviorist epistemology(BEHAVIOR AND PHILOSOPHY, 2004) Staddon, JERItem Open Access Item Restricted SELECTIVE CHOICE - A COMMENTARY ON HERRNSTEIN (1990)(AMERICAN PSYCHOLOGIST, 1991-07) Staddon, JERItem Open Access Simply Too Many Notes(The Behavior Analyst, 2017-06) Staddon, JERItem Open Access Social learning theory and the dynamics of interaction(Psychological Review, 1984) Staddon, JERItem Open Access Spaced responding and choice: A preliminary analysis(Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior, 1968) Staddon, JERItem Open Access TEMPORAL CONTROL ON PERIODIC SCHEDULES - FINE-STRUCTURE(BULLETIN OF THE PSYCHONOMIC SOCIETY, 1975) Staddon, JER; Frank, JAItem Open Access Temporal effects of reinforcement: A negative “frustration” effect(Learning and Motivation, 1970) Staddon, JERItem Open Access The dynamics of behavior: Review of Sutton and Barto: Reinforcement Learning : An Introduction (2 nd ed.)(Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior, 2020-03) Staddon, JERItem Open Access The dynamics of successive induction in larval zebrafish.(J Exp Anal Behav, 2010-09) Staddon, JER; MacPhail, RC; Padilla, SCharles Sherrington identified the properties of the synapse by purely behavioral means-the study of reflexes-more than 100 years ago. They were subsequently confirmed neurophysiologically. Studying reflex interaction, he also showed that activating one reflex often facilitates another, antagonistic one: successive induction, which has since been demonstrated in a wide range of species, from aphids to locusts to dogs and humans. We show a particularly orderly example in zebrafish (Danio rerio) larvae; the behavior (locomotion) of larvae is low in dark and intermediate in light, but low in light and substantially higher in dark when dark followed light. A quantitative model of a simple dynamic process is described that readily captures the behavior pattern and the effects of a number of manipulations of lighting conditions.Item Open Access The effect of informative feedback on temporal tracking in the pigeon(Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior, 1969) Staddon, JERItem Open Access The Role of Theory in Behavior Analysis: A Response to Unfinished Business, Travis Thompson’s Review of Staddon's New Behaviorism (2nd edition)(The Psychological Record) Staddon, JER