An Interbehavioral Systems Model for Empirical Investigation in Psychology

Upson, James D.; Ray, Roger D.

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“…Using these criteria, we have barely begun to truly develop what qualifies as a "library," but we do have enough illustrations to demonstrate most features that such a library will eventually incorporate. The modules described above, including the working prototypes of the AI engine and the AKG components, in addition to the animated graphic simulation of operant conditioning (see Ray, in press), are working applications of a 20-year research program on behavioral systems analysis (Ray, 1972;Ray & Brown, 1975, 1976Ray & Delprato, 1989;Ray, Upson, & Henderson, 1977;Upson & Ray, 1984).…”

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BehSys Anal: An artificially intelligent hypermedia resource library for descriptive behavioral research

Ray

Mitchell

1992

Behavior Research Methods, Instruments, & Computers

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The advancement of computer technologies, particularly the development of hypertext and interactive video, has presented to the academic community a new and effective tool for teaching and learning. An application of these technologies led to the concept of a hypermedia resource library-a set of integrated interactive computer modules that allow the user to browse and study topically specific content in a unique way. Such modules electronically present textual, graphic, and realtime video materials that instruct and quiz the user, offer a means for computer-based laboratory experimentation and data analysis, and provide statistical evaluation of the user's progress. This paper will focus on the technology of computer-based hypermedia and the specific concept within. this context of the artificially intelligent hypermedia resource library. 180Psychology, as with most academic disciplines, is typically taught in a linear fashion that progresses topically to higher and higher degrees of detail and specialization. Thus an introductory psychology course will typically include a survey of specialized topics, including learning, personality, social psychology, developmental psychology, physiological psychology, perception, cognition, and so forth. Upper-division courses are similarly recognizable by their more in-depth introduction to these same topics and include full courses on learning, personality, social psychology, and so forth. Advanced undergraduate and graduate courses offer more detail on these same topics, although they sometimes focus on subtopics within the main topic, for example, aggression as a subspecialization of social psychology.Almost all teachers working within such educational curricula have, over their careers, developed their own personal collections of resources that support their teaching of these different levels of topical specialization. Teachers may have favorite films, slides, and overhead transparencies they use in the introductory course to supplement various lectures and reading assignments, including readings in the primary text and those assigned and/or recommended that supplement the text. In advanced courses, teachers may rely on more specialized secondary readings, such as a topical introductory text plus personalized collections of primary readings that illustrate pet concepts or points of interest. At this level, films and other audiovisuals are more specific and tailored to the advanced topical interests and elaborations. Teachers typiResearch and program development reported in this paper were funded in part by NSF-ILl Grant USE-8952419. Correspondence should be addressed to R. D. Ray. Rollins College. Department of Psychology, 1000 Holt Ave.-27f1J, Winter Park, FL 32789; e-mail: rdray@rollins.Copyright 1992 Psychonomic Society, Inc.cally strive to maintain and update personalized libraries of the various teaching resources they wish to keep at their fingertips to meet their instructional needs.With the increasing availability and sophistication of personal computers, the dev...

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Section: Hypermedia Resource Library 187mentioning

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BehSys Anal: An artificially intelligent hypermedia resource library for descriptive behavioral research

Ray

Mitchell

1992

Behavior Research Methods, Instruments, & Computers

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“…On the other hand, the integrated-field orientation recognizes the inherent (probabilistic) organization of the constituent elements in natural systems. This means that both response interdependence and stimulation-response interdependence is a given property, hence, responses are not dependent variables subject exclusively to external control (Henton & Iverson, 1978;Honig, 1959;Ray & Brown, 1975Ray, 1977;Upson & Ray, 1984). Clearly, single-response and isolated stimulus-response sequence methodologies are insufficient to reveal complex organismenvironment interdependencies; a multiple-component methodology is required.…”

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“…Thus, structural micro-units become probabilistically chained to make up larger functional macro-units, which are themselves the constituent elements of even more macroscopically organized events defining the hierarchical organization of a given system (cf. Upson & Ray, 1984).…”

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“…Indeed, the evolution or development of complex behavioral systems seems in large part a matter of the successive evolution of hierarchically organized structural/functional systems, where multiple, and lower-level (i.e., micro), functional units organize sequentially to accomplish more broadly defined (i.e., macro) functions (Fentress, 1983). Furthermore, it is the micro-to-macro hierarchical nesting of behavioral systems that makes many analyses at once both structural and functional (i.e., interactive between structure and function in focussee Upson & Ray, 1984).…”

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“…It reveals "what occurs with what" across domains, (i.e., concurrent organizations). A pilot study illustrates the concept at two levels simultaneously (Upson & Ray, 1984). In this experiment differentially proficient golfers, including beginners, average players, and a professional were filmed with high-speed cameras for a Cartesian-coordinate kinesiological (i.e., structural element) study.…”

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An Interbehavioral Systems Model for Empirical Investigation in Psychology

Cited by 6 publications

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BehSys Anal: An artificially intelligent hypermedia resource library for descriptive behavioral research

BehSys Anal: An artificially intelligent hypermedia resource library for descriptive behavioral research

Behavioral systems analysis: Methodological strategies and tactics

The ?interbehavioral? approach to treatment

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