The Behavior of Organisms: An Experimental Analysis

By F. Nowell Jones, B. Skinner. 2016

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Subfields: Developmental and Educational Psychology, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology

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Deep TAMER: Interactive Agent Shaping in High-Dimensional State Spaces (2017, background): “Another area of research that aims to use explicit human interaction to increase the speed at which autonomous agents can learn to perform tasks is that of reward shaping (Skinner 1938; Randløv and Alstrøm 1998; Ng, Harada, and Russell 1999; Devlin and Kudenko 2012).”
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How Community Feedback Shapes User Behavior (2014, background): “This means that negative feedback seems to have exactly the opposite effect than predicted by the operant conditioning framework (Skinner 1938).”
Symmetry Learning for Function Approximation in Reinforcement Learning (2017, background): “The notion of reward shaping in RL has its roots in behavioral psychology [20].”