Introduction. Instrumentation in Behavior Analysis

Abstract

Instrumentation in behavior analysis began with Skinner, who sought the kind of precision and objectivity for the study of learning that, by his time, had become well-established in experimental psychology generally. The articles in this issue could be described as “variations on a theme of Skinner” in that they describe instrumentation that has its origin in the creative apparatus that Skinner pioneered in the early 1930s and elaborated on by generations of other researchers following in the Skinnerian tradition. It is the case, however, that behavior-analytic instrumentation of this sort has had an impact on the practice of not only behavior-analytic science, but many others areas of contemporary psychology and beyond.