Instructions
Welcome!
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:
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"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.)
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"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.)
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"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.)
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"LAWS" A systematic organization of the available
root-abstracts. (The GLOSSARY AND TOPICAL INDEX helps locate
information on topics according to conventional terminology.)
The root abstracts are first organized according to the learning
paradigms:
Avoidance
Conditioning
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.