BEHAVIORAL HISTORY - A DEFINITION AND SOME COMMON FINDINGS FROM 2 AREAS OF RESEARCH

Behavioral history research includes studies that (a) permit assessmen t of a prior experimental condition on a subsequent one, (b) show eith er short-lived or permanent effects, and (c) produce effects that are observable in ongoing behavior or that may be unobservable until speci al test conditions are introduced. We review experiments within both t he conventional experimental analysis of behavior and behavioral pharm acology in order to identify commonalities and differences in the outc omes of conceptually similar experiments. We suggest that a deeper und erstanding of the necessary and sufficient conditions for producing hi story effects will emerge from these complementary research efforts.