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The correlation-based law of effect.

W M Baum

    Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior
    |July 1, 1973
    PubMed
    Summary
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    Behavioral science should shift from event contiguity to event correlation. This change redefines reinforcement and punishment, focusing on aggregate behavioral flow over time rather than momentary occurrences.

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    Area of Science:

    • Behavioral Science
    • Psychology
    • Animal Behavior

    Background:

    • Organism-environment interactions are a feedback system.
    • Instrumental behavior involves continuous organism-environment exchange.
    • Orderly behavioral-environmental relations emerge over aggregate time flow.

    Purpose of the Study:

    • To propose a fundamental shift in the law of effect.
    • To advocate for a correlation-based law over a contiguity-based law.
    • To introduce new concepts for analyzing behavior over time.

    Main Methods:

    • Conceptual analysis of the law of effect.
    • Redefinition of reinforcement and punishment.
    • Introduction of 'value' and 'behavioral situation' as analytical units.

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    Main Results:

    • A correlation-based law of effect is favored by recent research.
    • Measures and units transcending momentary events are supported.
    • New concepts allow for redefinition of reinforcement, punishment, and discriminative stimuli.

    Conclusions:

    • The law of effect should be based on correlation, not contiguity.
    • Behavioral analysis should focus on aggregate flow and value.
    • This framework clarifies fundamental concepts in behavioral science.