[2] Subsequently, he attended Columbia University in New York City, where he received his Master's and Ph.D. degrees under the mentorship of William N. Schoenfeld and Fred S. Keller.
[3] In line with Skinner's work, Dinsmoor's first published study compared the discriminative and reinforcing functions of a stimulus.
He worked as a professor at Indiana University for 34 years,[2] where he conducted numerous projects examining basic behavioral processes, especially discrimination learning in the area of negative reinforcement.
His work allowed for the formation of a narrative on the differential effects of various types of stimulus control techniques on differing behaviors.
[5][6] James Dinsmoor worked with apparatuses that provided reinforcers (e.g., food) and punishers (e.g., electric shock) to laboratory animals.
[3] Early in his career, he helped organize the creation of the Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior, which is still in circulation today.
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