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The first, a review [from 2008](http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18425890), concludes the following: “Current evidence for efficacy of these diets (for autism spectrum disorder) is poor.” The second is from 1995–yes, it is almost 20 years old–and the abstract ends only with a hypothesis: “Our results lead us to hypothesise a relationship between food allergy and infantile autism as has already been suggested for other disturbances of the central nervous system.”
PETA: Milk Linked to Scary Autism and Vegan Is Your Only Hope
forbes.com
Such explanations are readily available. One area of research was particularly damaging to Skinner’s theory.
Brown and Jenkins (1968) discovered autoshaping, a procedure whereby Pavlovian procedures can induce key-pecking in pigeons (the procedure can be modified to produce bar-pressing in rats). Thus, the key-peck and the bar-press, the two paradigmatic operants, became respondents. A broader review (Mills 1988) shows that, when hungry or thirsty, rats and pigeons emit instinctively based food- or water-gaining responses. Thus, pigeons peck with the beak closed when they are hungry and the beak open when they are thirsty, while rats will grasp and gnaw at an object associated with food (e.g., the lever in the Skinner box).
Cognitive and sociocultural explanations will have to be found to explain human responses to rewards and punishments
Encyclopedia of the History of Psychological Theories
Robert W. Rieber
Zwei verletzte MFA bei einem Angriff auf ein Corona-Impfteam in Thüringen – das sorgt für Entsetzen in Landespolitik und bei der KV. Es ist der erste derartige Vorfall im Freistaat.
Corona-Impfteams: KV Erwägt Nach Angriff Auf MFA Verschärften Schutz
aerztezeitung.de
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