The evolution of the concept of operant

• Autor(es):

  Todorov, João Cláudio (Universidade de Brasília, Universidade Católica de Goiás).

• Fonte:

  Psicologia: Teoria e Pesquisa; volume 18, número 2, páginas 123-127. Agosto 2002.

• Assuntos:

  response;

  operant;

  contingency.

• Resumo:

  The concept of operant was developed by Skinner as an answer to the problems he had using the concept of reflex to describe the eating behavior of rats. The present work shows the evolution of the concept to present times, when the unity of analysis is the concept of triple contingency.

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