Predicting Reinforcement: Utility of the Motivating Operations Concept

Affiliations

¹ 1Department of Psychology, Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, MI 49008 USA.
² Easterseals Southern California, Anaheim, CA USA.
³ 3University of Waikato, Hamilton, New Zealand.

Editorial

Alan Poling et al. Behav Anal. 2017.

. 2017 May 9;40(1):49-56.

doi: 10.1007/s40614-017-0091-z. eCollection 2017 Jun.

¹ 1Department of Psychology, Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, MI 49008 USA.
² Easterseals Southern California, Anaheim, CA USA.
³ 3University of Waikato, Hamilton, New Zealand.

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Keywords: Behavior Analyst; Discriminative Stimulus; Learning History; Verbal Behavior; Wheel Running.

Conflict of interest statement

Conflicts of InterestThe authors declare that they have no conflict of interest.

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