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Experimental Design and Analysis in the Laboratory Study of Human Operant Behavior

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Handbook of Research Methods in Human Operant Behavior

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Research methods play an essential role in efforts to describe, understand, and control nature. Consensus about appropriate procedures and practices allows researchers to compare and integrate their observations with those of others. On a deeper level, a researcher’s methods express what is regarded as important in the field under study—and what is not. Consider, for example, the earliest experiments of psychologists in which subjects were asked to report on the contents of their consciousness as they engaged in various activities (Boring, 1950, Chapter 16). This “method of introspection” reflected the conviction that the important questions of psychology pertained to the individual’s mental life. Behavior was of interest, but only insofar as it shed light on consciousness and the like. Later psychologists led by Watson and Skinner came to regard behavior as interesting and important in its own right. This emphasis is reflected in the label attached to the methods originated in Skinner’s seminal work on operant conditioning in rats (Skinner, 1938) and pigeons (Ferster & Skinner 1957): the experimental analysis of behavior.

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Baron, A., Perone, M. (1998). Experimental Design and Analysis in the Laboratory Study of Human Operant Behavior. In: Lattal, K.A., Perone, M. (eds) Handbook of Research Methods in Human Operant Behavior. Applied Clinical Psychology. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4899-1947-2_3

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