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All information in the Quad-L is freely available to everyone.
Please send comments to Derek Hamilton (dahamilt@unm.edu)

NOTE:  The information in the Quad-L is being updated on a continuing basis.

If you are not familiar with the logic of the Quad-L system, you should first read the "Introduction" and then the Prefaces to the various topics.
NOTE: You can do a character-string search on any file using the find command in the edit menu of your browser.

The subsequent categories of information are as follows:

  1. "LITERATURE"  An alphabetical listing of all of the references that have been identified as relevant to the domain of AL&B, including others that fit into the founder's research agenda. (The preface includes a list of ABBREVIATIONS for institutions, journals, and publishers.)
  2. "DATABASE (Abridged)"  An expansion of the "literature" to display the root-abstracts that have been written to date. (The preface includes a list of ABBREVIATIONS for words and acronyms.)
  3. "DATABASE"  A complete listing including the codes used to categorize the root-abstracts into systematic categories. (The preface includes a description of the TAXONOMY developed to systematize the root-abstracts.)
  4. "LAWS"  A systematic organization of the available root-abstracts. (The GLOSSARY AND TOPICAL INDEX helps locate information on topics according to conventional terminology.)

  5. The root abstracts are first organized according to the learning paradigms:
                Avoidance Conditioning

    6.             Classical Conditioning
                Differentiation Learning
                Discrimination Learning
                Escape Conditioning
                Free Behavior
                Instrumental Conditioning
                Operant Conditioning
                Spatial Learning
                Systematic Analyses

    They are then separated as being primarily concerned with excitatory or
    inhibitory processes.  Next, the main experimental variable is
    categorized as to whether it

         A.  Is performed independently of the organism's behavior,

         B.  Is currently operating or occurred prior to testing,

         C.  Is primarily concerned with:  Contingency Variable
                                                                   Stimulus Variable
                                                                   Organism Variable
                                                                   Response Variable  


NOTE: It is usually helpful to begin in "Systematic Analyses," which contains general propositions concerning the behavioral paradigms, processes, and theories.
         


This site also contains other information:
  '  Library--Listing of books/journals in the Quad-L Library.
    Ways and Whys--Application of Principles of Learning to College Learning.
    Principles of Learning--Brief description of some basic Principles at the sophomore level.
    Data re sexual free behavior and copytyping errors.