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. 2021 Jul 13;37(2):251-255.
doi: 10.1007/s40616-021-00156-3. eCollection 2021 Dec.

Finding Jack Michael's Footprints in the Sand

David C Palmer  1
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Finding Jack Michael's Footprints in the Sand

David C Palmer. Anal Verbal Behav. .

Abstract

Jack Michael left a legacy of fine discriminations among technical terms, a careful parsing of theoretical concepts, and a variety of behavioral interpretations of complex behavioral phenomena. When pushing into relatively unfamiliar territory in areas such as "memory," automatic reinforcement, multiple control, and additivity of response strength, I have been surprised and delighted to find evidence that Jack had once explored the same topics, in the same way, and had come to the same conclusions toward which I was groping.

Keywords: Additivity of stimulus control; Jack Michael; Memory; Multiple control.

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