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McDowell, J. J.; Caron, Marcia L.; Kulubekova, Saule; Berg, John P. – Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior, 2008
Virtual organisms animated by a computational theory of selection by consequences responded on symmetrical and asymmetrical concurrent schedules of reinforcement. The theory instantiated Darwinian principles of selection, reproduction, and mutation such that a population of potential behaviors evolved under the selection pressure exerted by…
Descriptors: Reinforcement, Behavior, Intervals, Numbers