Professor Randolph
Grace
Position
Professor
Working Papers:
Ordinal Scales in Psychology (pdf, 348KB)
Simon Kemp & Randolph C. Grace
University of Canterbury
Version: 21 March, 2012
Qualifications
SB - (MIT)
MA - (New Hamp)
PhD - (New Hamp)
Room
205
Contact Details
Phone: +64 364 2987, ext. 7996
Internal Phone: 7996
Email: randolph.grace@canterbury.ac.nz
Postal address:
Department of Psychology
University of Canterbury
Private Bag 4800
Christchurch
New Zealand
Background
Undergraduate Courses
PSYC 206: - Research Design and Statistics - Course Coordinator
Graduate Courses
PSYC 415: - Experimental Analysis of Behaviour - Both Dr Grace and Dr McLean are Course Coordinators
PSYC
460: - Research Methods in Psychology - Course
Coordinator
PSYC
601: - Research Methods in Psychology - Course
Coordinator. [Compulsory for Masters thesis students who have not completed
PSYC 405 prior to 2004.]
PSYC 464 - Multivariate Statistics & Methods in Psychology - Course Coordinator
PSYC 602 - Multivariate Statistics & Methods in Psychology - Course Coordinator [Compulsory for Masters thesis students who have not completed
PSYC 405 prior to 2004.]
Thesis Supervision
Research Interests
- Research methods
- Animal learning and cognition
- History and theory
School Administration
Member, Department Research Committee
Member, Department Curriculum Committee
Recent Publications
Berg, M. E., and Grace, R. C. (in press). Initial-Link Duration and Acquisition of Preference in Concurrent Chains. Learning and Behavior.
Grace, R. C., Berg, M. E., and Kyonka, E. G. E. (accepted). Choice and timing in concurrent chains: Effects of initial-link duration. Behavioural Processes.
Grace, R. C., and McLean, A. P. (in press). Integrated versus segregated accounting and the magnitude effect in temporal discounting. Psychonomic Bulletin and Review.
Willis, G., & Grace, R. C. (in press). The quality of community reintegration planning for child molesters: Effects on sexual recidivism. Sexual Abuse: A Journal of Research and Treatment.
Arantes, J., & Grace, R. C. (2008). Failure to obtain value enhancement by within-trial contrast in simultaneous and successive discriminations. Learning & Behavior, 36, 1-11.
Arantes, J., & Grace, R. C. (2008). Contrast and value: Beyond the work-ethic effect. A reply to Zentall (2008). Learning & Behavior, 36, 26-28.
Kyonka, E. G. E., & Grace, R. C. (2008). Rapid acquisition of preference in concurrent chains when alternatives differ on multiple dimensions of reinforcement. Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior, 89, 49-69.
Sutton, N. P., Grace, R. C., McLean, A. P., & Baum, W. M. (2008). Comparing the generalized matching law and contingency discriminability model as accounts of concurrent schedule performance using residual meta-analysis. Behavioural Processes, 78 , 224-230.
Ta, W.-M., Pitts, R. C., Hughes, C. E., McLean, A. P., & Grace, R. C. (2008). Rapid acquisition of preference in concurrent chains: Effects of d -Amphetamine on sensitivity to reinforcement delay. Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior, 89, 71-91.
Tan, L., & Grace, R. C. (2008). Social desirability and sexual offenders: A review. Sexual Abuse: A Journal of Research and Treatment, 20, 61-87.
Grace, R. C., and Bragason, O. (2005). Does sensitivity to magnitude depend on the temporal distribution of reinforcement? Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior, 83, 169-184.
Grace, R. C., and Marr, M. J. (2005). SQAB 2004: Finding the Center. Behavioural Processes, 69 , v-ix.
Nevin, J. A., and Grace, R. C. (2005). Resistance to extinction in the steady-state and in transition. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Animal Behavior Processes, 31 , 199-212.
Berg, M. E., and Grace, R. C. (2004). Ind ependence of terminal-link entry rate and immediacy in concurrent chains. Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior, 82, 235-251.
Grace, R. C. (2004). Temporal context in concurrent chains: I. Terminal-link duration. Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior, 81 , 215-237.
Grace, R. C., and Bragason, O. (2004). Does the terminal-link effect depend on duration or reinforcement rate? Behavioural Processes, 67 , 67-79.
Grace, R. C., and Hackenberg, T. D. (2004). SQAB 2003: Bridging the gap. Behavioural Processes, 66 , v-viii.
Grace, R. C., and Nevin, J. A. (2004). Behavioral momentum and Pavlovian conditioning. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 27 , 695-697.
Grace, R. C., Bragason, O., and McLean, A. P. (2003). Rapid acquisition of preference in concurrent chains. Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior, 80 , 235-252.
Grace, R. C., and McLean, A. P. (2003). Child Offenders: What Do We Know? Wellington , NZ: Department of Child, Youth, and Family Services.
Grace, R. C., McLean, A. P., and Nevin, J. A. (2003). Reinforcement context and resistance to change. Behavioural Processes , 64 , 91-101.
Johnston , L., Arden , K., Macrae, C.N., and Grace, R. (2003). The need for speed: The menstrual cycle and personal construal. Social Cognition, 21, 89-100.
Miller, R.R., and Grace, R.C. (2003). Conditioning and learning. In Experimental psychology (A.F. Healy and R.W. Proctor, Eds.), Vol 4 , pp. 357-397, of Handbook of Psychology (I.B. Weiner, Ed.). New York : John Wiley and Sons.
Grace, R. C. (2002). Acquisition of preference in concurrent chains: Comparing linear-operator and memory-representational models. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Animal Behavior Processes, 28 , 257-276.
Grace, R. C. (2002). The value hypothesis and acquisition of preference inconcurrent chains. Animal Learning and Behavior, 30 , 21-33.
Grace, R. C., Bedell, M. A., and Nevin, J. A. (2002). Preference and resistance to change with constant- and variable-duration terminal links: Effects of reinforcement rate and magnitude. Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior, 77 , 233-255.
Grace, R. C., McLean, A. P., and Bragason, O. (2002). Can altruism be understood in terms of socially-discounted extrinsic reinforcement? Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 25 , 259-260.
Grace, R. C. (2001). On the failure of operationism. Theory and Psychology, 11, 5-33.
Grace, R. C. (2001). The pragmatics of operationism: A reply. Theory and Psychology, 11, 67-74.
Nevin, J. A., Grace, R. C., Holland, S., and McLean A. P. (2001). Variable-ratio versus variable-interval schedules: Response rate, resistance to change and preference. Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior, 76, 43-74.
Nevin, J. A., McLean, A. P., and Grace, R. C. (2001). Response strength, reinforcer omission, and resistance to extinction. Animal Learning and Behavior, 29, 176-191.
Grace, R. C., and Nevin, J. A. (2000). Comparing preference and resistance to change in constant- and variable-duration schedule components. Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior, 74, 165-188.
Grace, R. C., and Nevin, J. A. (2000). Response strength and temporal control in fixed-interval schedules. Animal Learning and Behavior, 28, 313-331.
Grace, R. C., and Savastano, H. I. (2000). Temporal context and conditioned reinforcement value. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 129, 427-443.
Grace, R. C., and Savastano, H. I. (2000). The relationship between value and temporal context is an empirical question: A reply to Fantino (2000). Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 129, 447-448.
Nevin, J. A., and Grace, R. C. (2000). Behavioral momentum and the law of effect. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 23, 73-130 (includes commentary).
Nevin, J. A., and Grace, R. C. (2000). Preference and resistance to change with constant-duration schedule components. Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior, 74, 79-100.