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Freud meets Skinner: Hyperbolic curves, elliptical theories, and Ainslie Interests

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 October 2005

Federico Sanabria  and
Peter R. Killeen
Federico Sanabria*
Affiliation:
Department of Psychology, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ85287-1104http://www.asu.edu/clas/psych/research/blab/http://www.asu.edu/clas/psych/people/faculty/pkilleen.html
Peter R. Killeen*
Affiliation:
Department of Psychology, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ85287-1104http://www.asu.edu/clas/psych/research/blab/http://www.asu.edu/clas/psych/people/faculty/pkilleen.html
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Abstract

Ainslie advances Freud's and Skinner's theories of homunculi by basing their emergent complexity on the interaction of simple algorithms. The rules of competition and cooperation of these interests are underspecified, but they provide a new way of thinking about the basic elements of conditioning, particularly conditioned stimuli (CSs).

Type
Open Peer Commentary
Information
Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 28 , Issue 5 , October 2005 , pp. 660 - 661
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2005

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