• Approaches to understanding of remembering 

      Åstad, Tonje Gellein (MALKS;2015, Master thesis, 2015)
      Article 1 gives an account of how cognitive psychology and behavior analysis understand and explain memory or remembering. Within behavior analysis, the most common procedure for studying remembering is matching-to-sample ...
    • Attribution style, theory and empirical findings 

      Krohn, Charlotte (MALKS;2017, Master thesis, 2017)
      Attribution theory is a long-standing and widely discussed theory that addresses individuals’ explanation of causes of events. People attribute events of success and failure individually. Previous studies indicate that ...
    • A behavior analytic account of social categorizatio 

      Strand, Rebekka (MALKS;2018, Master thesis, 2018)
      In the current article, social categorization was analyzed within the behavior analytic framework. Behavior analysis has been deemed unable to account for more complex behavior that seems to emerge without direct training. ...
    • Behavioral studies of memory: conditional discrimination techniques 

      Strandbakken, Lars (MALKS;2014, Master thesis, 2014)
      A presentation of various conceptual problems and challenges in the field of memory research is presented in Article 1. After giving examples of approaches to the phenomenon by the disciplines of behavior analysis and ...
    • Categorization in Children with Autism 

      Rustebakke, Elisabeth Ulvestad (MALKS;2015, Master thesis, 2015)
      Developing methods to teach functional language and more fluent speech in children with autism spectrum disorders (ASD) is a growing area of research. There are some findings that suggest that the ability to categorize may ...
    • Conceptual approaches to culture and communication: Approaches from each of the three levels of selection 

      Bahari, Mohsen (MALKS;2016, Master thesis, 2016)
      B. F. Skinner suggested that selection by consequences is a process that occurs at three levels. Natural selection, selection of individual behavior and cultural selection. In this article we explore the third level of ...
    • Confirmation bias: Prevalence and debiasing techniques 

      Holth, Elise (MALKS;2019, Master thesis, 2019)
      ‘Confirmation bias’ is a phenomenon that has been recognized by philosophers of science through centuries. The phenomenon is commonly defined as a tendency to favor confirmatory evidence in support of already stated ...
    • Customer greeting in offline retail stores: A literature review and a case study 

      Nilsen, Sol (MALKS;2019, Master thesis, 2019)
      Artikkel 1. Abstract The retail industry is confronted with big challenges due to technical innovation, digitalization and online shops. This can be seen in the high number of stores closing across the whole industry. If ...
    • Et atferdsanalytisk perspektiv på gamification som læringsstrategi 

      Kaaber, Cecilie (MALKS;2020, Master thesis, 2020)
      Denne masteroppgaven tar for seg emnet digital spillbasert læring, også kalt digital gamification. Gjennom en litteraturgjennomgang blir det vurdert litteratur på emnet fra de siste seks årene med formål om å belyse relativ ...
    • Growth mindset and the capacity for learning 

      Mwaiselage, Esnath J. (MALKS;2021, Master thesis, 2021)
      The topic pertaining to motivation has been a theme that has had long history within scientific research. A number of theories have tried to dedicate themselves in the investigation of this phenomenon. One such field ...
    • On the role of sorting 

      Norbom, Aina Dahle (MALKS;2013, Master thesis, 2013-01-01)
      Article 1: The present article presents different definitions of the terms categorization and concepts in regards of the cognitive psychology and behavior analysis. Prospective future research on sorting and equivalence ...
    • Opplæring i eksperimentelle funksjonelle analyser og visuelle analyser 

      Bertelsen, Kari Anne T. (Master thesis, 2009)
      Artikkel 1 omhandler eksperimentelle funksjonelle analyser og visuelle analyser. Under eksperimentelle funksjonelle analyser gjennomgås historikk og sentrale områder for tidligere studier oppsummeres. Kritikk og innvendinger ...
    • Relational classification in behavior analysis and ecological psychology 

      Viklund, Johan Sten (MALKS;2017, Master thesis, 2017)
      The thesis discusses relational classification in behavior analysis and ecological psychology. First, relational classification within behavior analysis is discussed in a theoretical article. The article aims to technically ...
    • Semantic priming and stimulus equivalence, article 1. Effect of pre-training with rapid responding on formation of equivalence classes, article 2 

      Liland, Kim Henrik (MALKS;2013, Master thesis, 2013)
      Article 1: Semantic priming and stimulus equivalence are research areas that study relations between stimuli. Semantic priming researchers are interested in the reaction time between a prime and a following target. The ...
    • Some issues in memory research within behavior analysis 

      Høgnason, Felix (MALKS;2012, Master thesis, 2012)
      The purpose of Article 1 is to introduce some of the major theoretical contribution of cognitive psychology concerning short-term or working memory. The role of neuroscientific research of enhancing our understanding of ...
    • Stimulus equivalence and supplemental measures on equivalence relations 

      Moksness, Anne-Marie (MALKS;2012, Master thesis, 2012)
      The present article introduces stimulus equivalence research as an experimental analysis on how previously unrelated stimuli can generate a specific pattern of responding without being directly taught. Murray Sidman and ...
    • Stimulus equivalence: Conceptual and methodological issues 

      Granmo, Sjur (MALKS;2015, Master thesis, 2015)
      Article 1: The research field of concepts is—in the present article—divided in two accounts: the cognitive psychology approach and the behavior analysis approach. The article starts off by illuminating the philosophical ...
    • Studier av variabler som påvirker hukommelse 

      Walle, Anine (MALKS;2015, Master thesis, 2015)
      Det stilles ofte spørsmål rundt hvordan det er mulig å huske, eller å glemme. Hukommelse er interessant i seg selv, men det er et komplekst fenomen, mye fordi det ikke er mulig å studere det direkte. Hvordan er det mulig ...
    • Verbal behavior and social media 

      Lillemoen, Maria (MALKS;2013, Master thesis, 2013)
      Social interaction is important for human beings and has been subject for research in different forms. Due to technological developments the last decade, social media have occurred and show social interaction in new forms. ...