EverNotes from a Radical Behaviorist: Susan M. Schneider: Operant Principles Everywhere: Interdisciplinary Behavior Analysis and the Future of Our Field

1. Not comfortable with this, but can’t articulate my concerns.
2. "Nature and nurture works together” is a common theme, these days.
3. Bird songs
   1. The “instinctive” male bird song acts as a reinforcer for the female bird
   2. Differential reinforcement the song can control its pitch.
   3. There are “instinctive” unlearned preferences for imprinting auditory stimuli and also bird songs, but the preferences can be changed as a result of operant conditioning.
4. Rhesus monkeys
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