Principles of psychology.

Near-Miss Effects on Response Latencies and Win Estimations of Slot Machine Players

“…Unfortunately, our current experimental arrangement could not detect what such a difference might have been. All participants were screened for potential gambling pathology using the South Oaks Gambling Screen (Lesieur & Blume, 1987) and no differences between these 4 and the other 8 participants were observed, which may have suggested some type of setting event (Kantor, 1924) or establishing operation (Michael, 1993) in effect. Likewise no differences could be determined between exposures to a specific type of contingency arrangement (i.e., the density or magnitude of winning payouts, strings of losses, etc.…”

Understanding Observational Learning: An Interbehavioral Approach

“…Stimulus substitution is the outcome of a history of an organism interacting with various association conditions (Kantor, 1924(Kantor, , 1958Parrott, 1983aParrott, , 1983bParrott, , 1986. That is, given an organisms history of interacting with spatiotemporal relationships (A-coffee shopr R B-Peter), stimulus objects may have the stimulational properties of other objects, even when those other objects are no longer physically present.…”

Constructs and Events in Verbal Behavior

“…Put differently, while all behavior may be reduced to its bare similarities, the organization of psychological events of the verbal type seems to involve some special qualities. Specifically, verbal behavior seems to be substitutional, involving combinations of substitutional functions actualized in unique, multifactored fields (Kantor, 1924(Kantor, , 1958Parrott, 1984). For example, a native Canadian living in Los Angeles might say ''I miss Canada,'' which is a response function that involves interacting with substitute stimulus functions (the individual is not actually in Canada, but interacting with it substitutionally via some present stimulus object).…”