Carolyn Rovee-Collier
Carolyn Rovee-Collier was a researcher and first author of the 1979 Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior paper on multiple conjugate reinforcement schedules in 3-month-old infants.
Who they are
The work of Carolyn Rovee-Collier reaches this site through the paper listed below. On this site the name is tied to Operant Conditioning, Extinction (Operant Conditioning).
Key papers
Rovee-Collier, C. K., & Capatides, J. B. (1979). Positive behavioral contrast in 3-month-old infants on multiple conjugate reinforcement schedules. Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior, 32(1), 15-27. What it reports: Two experiments in which the kicks of 3-month-old infants moved an overhead crib mobile, with colours and patterns signalling the parts of the schedule. Responding fell when reinforcement stopped, and positive behavioural contrast appeared in both experiments.
Key ideas
Operant Conditioning: B.F. Skinner's finding that behavior is shaped by its consequences, not by conscious intent, reward or punish an action and you change how often it recurs.
Extinction (Operant Conditioning): The fading of a behaviour once its consequence stops arriving.
Sources
- Rovee-Collier, C. K., & Capatides, J. B. (1979). Positive behavioral contrast in 3-month-old infants on multiple conjugate reinforcement schedules. Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior, 32(1), 15-27.