Curriculum vitae
PERSONAL INFORMATION
TERRY W. BELKE
Associate Professor
Department of Psychology
Mount Allison University
Sackville, New Brunswick
Canada E4L 1C7
Place of Birth: Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
Citizenship: Canadian
Marital Status: Married
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EDUCATION
1993 Ph.D. Harvard University, Cambridge, MA (Psychology)
1991 M.A. Harvard University, Cambridge, MA (Psychology)
1988 M.A. University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada (Sociology)
1983 B.A. University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada (Psychology)
1980 B.Sc. University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada (General Science -Geology)
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FELLOWSHIPS AND AWARDS
1993 - 1994 Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada Post-doctoral Fellowship $29,000 per year
1990 - 1992 Sir James Lougheed Award of Distinction $15,000 per year
1988 - 1990 Harvard University Scholarship $22,000 per year
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GRANTS
2003-2008 Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council Operating Grant ($19,300 per year)
1999 - 2003 Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council Operating Grant ($16,800 per year)
1995 - 1999 Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council Operating Grant ($13,800 per year)
1994 - 1995 Internal Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council Grant ($1,860)
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PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS
Member, Society for the Quantitative Analysis of Behavior
Member, Association for Behavior Analysis
Member, Canadian Society for Brain, Behavior, and Cognitive Science
Member, American Association for Laboratory Animal Science
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JOURNAL ARTICLES, PUBLISHED
Belke, T. W. (in press). Concurrent-schedules of wheel-running reinforcement: Choice between different durations of opportunity to run in rats. Learning and Behavior, accepted 04/25/05.
Belke, T. W., Oldford, A. C., Forgie, M. Y. & Beye, J. A. (2005). Responding for sucrose and wheel-running reinforcement: effect of d-amphetamine. Behavioural Pharmacology, 16, 219-225.
Belke, T.W. & Wagner, J.P. (2005). The reinforcing property and the rewarding aftereffect of wheel running in rats: A combination of two paradigms. Behavioural Processes., 68, 165-172.
Belke, T.W. & McLaughlin, R.J. (2005). Habituation contributes to the decline in wheel running within wheel-running reinforcement periods. Behavioural Processes., 68, 107-115.
Belke, T. W., Pierce, W. D., & Jensen, K. (2004). Effect of short-term prefeeding and body weight on wheel running and responding reinforced by the opportunity to run in a wheel. Behavioural Processes., 67, 1-10.
Belke, T. W. (2004) Responding for sucrose and wheel-running reinforcement: effect of body weight manipulation. Behavioural Processes., 65, 189-199.
Belke, T. W. and Hancock, S. D. (2003). Responding for sucrose and wheel-running reinforcement: Effects of sucrose concentration and wheel-running reinforcer duration. Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior, 79, 243-265.
Broderick, T. L., Belke, T. W. , & Driedzic, W. R. (2002) Effects of chronic caloric restriction on mitochondrial respiration in the ischemic reperfused rat heart. Molecular and Cellular Biochemistry., 233 (1-2), 199-225
Belke, T. W. and Belliveau J. (2001). Herrnstein's matching law describes choice on concurrent variable-interval schedules of wheel-running reinforcement. Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior, 75, 299-310.
Belke, T. W. and Dunbar, M. (2001). Effect of cocaine on fixed-interval responding reinforced by the opportunity to run. Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior, 75, 77-91
Broderick T.L., Driedzic W. R., Gillis, M., Jacob J., and Belke T. (2001). Effects of chronic food restriction and exercise training on recovery of cardiac function following ischemia. Journal of Gerontology: Biological Sciences 56(A), B33-B37.
Belke, T.W. (2000). Differences in responding for sucrose and wheel-running reinforcement: Excitatory stimulus effects or inhibitory after-effects? Animal Learning & Behavior, 28, 332-343.
Belke, T. W. and Kwan, T. Y. (2000). The effect of changes in availability on food selection at different levels of deprivation. The Psychological Record, 50, 529-541.
Belke, T. W. (2000). Studies of wheel-running reinforcement: Parameters from Herrnstein's (1970) response-strength equation vary with schedule order Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior, 73, 319-331.
Kwan, T. Y., Belke, T. W., and Enta, T. (2000). Sex differences in the anatomical distribution of melanocytic nevi in Canadian Hutterite children. Journal of Cutaneous Medicine and Surgery, 4(2), 58-62.
Belke, T. W. (2000). Varying wheel-running reinforcer duration within a session: Effect on the revolution-postreinforcement pause relation. Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior, 73, 225-239.
Belke, T. W. and Dunlop, L. (1998). Effects of high doses of naltrexone on running and responding for the opportunity to run in rats: A test of the opiate hypothesis. Psychological Record, 48, 675-684.
Belke, T. W. (1998). Qualitatively different reinforcers and parameters of Herrnstein's (1970) response-strength equation. Animal Learning & Behavior, 26, 235-242.
Belke, T. W. and Dunbar, M. (1998). Effects of fixed-interval schedule and reinforcer duration on responding reinforced by the opportunity to run. Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior, 70, 69-78.
Belke, T. W. and Neubauer, J. (1997) A matching law analysis of the effect of amphetamine on responding reinforced by the opportunity to run. Psychological Record, 47, 483-498.
Belke, T. W. (1997) Running and responding reinforced by the opportunity to run: Effect of reinforcer duration. Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior, 67, 337-351.
Belke, T. W. (1996). The effect of a change in body weight on running and responding reinforced by the opportunity to run. The Psychological Record, 46, 421-433.
Belke, T. W., and Spetch, M. L. (1994). Choice between reliable and unreliable reinforcement alternatives revisited: Preference for unreliable reinforcement. Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior, 62, 353-366.
Belke, T. W. and Heyman, G. M. (1994). A matching law analysis of the reinforcing efficacy of wheel running in rats. Animal Learning & Behavior, 22, 267-274.
Spetch, M. L., Mondloch, M. V., Belke, T. W., and Dunn, R. (1994). Determinants of pigeons' choice between certain and probabilistic outcomes. Animal Learning & Behavior, 22, 239-251.
Belke, T. W. and Heyman, G. M. (1994). Increasing and signalling background reinforcement: Effect on the foreground response- reinforcer relation. Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior, 61, 65-81.
Belke, T. W. (1992). Stimulus preference and the transitivity of preference. Animal Learning & Behavior, 20, 401-406.
Vyse, S. A. and Belke, T. W. (1992). Maximizing versus matching on concurrent variable-interval schedules. Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior, 58, 325 - 334.
Spetch, M. L., Belke, T. W., Barnet, R. C., Dunn, R. and Pierce,W. D. (1990). Suboptimal choice in a percentage-reinforcement procedure: Effects of signal condition and terminal-link length. Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior, 53, 219-234.
Belke, T. W., Pierce, W. D., and Powell, R. A. (1989). Determinants of choice for pigeons and humans on concurrent-chain schedules of reinforcement. Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior, 52, 97-109.
Heth, C. D., Pierce, W. D., Belke, T. W., and Hensch, S. A. (1989). The effect of logarithmic transformation on estimating the parameters of the generalized matching law. Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior, 52, 65-76.
Pierce W. D. and Belke, T. (1988). Stimulus control of consumer opinion by brand names: A social conditioning analysis. The Psychological Record, 38, 227-236.
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JOURNAL ARTICLES, UNDER REVIEW
Belke, T. W. Responding for sucrose and wheel-running reinforcement: Effect of Prerunning. Behavioural Processes..
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BOOK CHAPTERS and NON-REFEREED PUBLICATIONS
Belke, T. W. (2002) Context matters: My education at the Harvard Pigeon Lab Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior, 77, 373-374.
Belke, T.W. (1997). A synopsis of The Bell Curve. In B. Devlin, S. E. Fienberg, D. P. Resnick, and K. Roeder (Eds.). Intelligence and Success : Is It All in the Genes? : Scientists Respond to the Bell Curve. (pp. 19-40), New York: Springer Verlag
Belke, T. W. (1996). Investigating the reinforcing properties of running: Or, runnng is its own reward. In W. F. Epling and W. D. Pierce (Eds.) Activity anorexia: theory, research, and treatment. (pp. 45-55), Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.
Belke, T. W. (1995). A synopsis of Herrnstein and Murray's The Bell Curve: Intelligence and Class Structure in American Life (New York, Free Press, 1994), Alberta Journal of Educational Research, v. XLI, no. 3 , 238-256.
Belke, T. W. (1994). A review of Pedagogue's Progress by Fred S. Keller Alberta Journal of Educational Research, v. XL, no. 1 , 101-104.
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CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS
Belke, T. W. An assessment of the substitutability of sucrose and wheel-running reinforcement. Winter Conference on Animal Learning & Behavior, Winter Park, Colorado, February, 2005.
Belke, T.W. and Duncan, I. Concurrent schedules of wheel-running and sucrose reinforcement: Effect of sucrose concentration manipulation. Association for Behavior Analysis Conference, Boston, MA, May, 2003.
Belke, T.W. Concurrent schedules of wheel-running reinforcement: Choosing between different durations of opportunity to run. Association for Behavior Analysis Conference, Toronto, ON, May, 2002
Belke, T.W. The opportunity to run for 15 s is equivalent to a drop of 2.5% sucrose solution. Association for Behavior Analysis Conference, New Orleans, LA, May, 2001
Belke, T.W. Effect of body weight on responding for sucrose and wheel-running reinforcement. Association for Behavior Analysis Conference, New Orleans, LA, May, 2001
Belke, T.W. and Pierce, W. D. Pre-feeding reduces the reinforcement effectiveness of wheel running in rats. Association for Behavior Analysis Conference, New Orleans, LA, May, 2001
Broderick, T. L. and Belke, T. Mitochondrial function in ischemic caloric restricted hearts. International Society for Heart Research, Louisville, KT, July 2000.
Belke, T.W. Response rate asymptotes from Herrnstein's (1970) response-strength equation vary as a function of schedule order. Society for the Quantitative Analysis of Behavior, Chicago, IL, May, 1999
Belke, T.W. Inhibitory after-effects and excitatory stimulus effects of qualitatively different reinforcers. Association for Behavior Analysis Conference, Chicago, IL, May, 1999
Dunbar, M. and Belke, T.W. Effect of cocaine on fixed-interval responding maintained by the opportunity to run. Canadian Society for Brain, Behaviour, and Cognitive Sciences Conference, Carleton University, Ottawa, June, 1998
Belke, T.W. Qualitatively different reinforcement and parameters of Herrnstein's (1970) hyperbola. Society for the Quantitative Analysis of Behavior, Chicago, May, 1997
Belke, T.W. A comparison of the parameters of Herrnstein's (1970) response strength equation for appetitive and nonappetitive reinforcement. Association for Behavior Analysis Conference, Chicago, IL, May, 1997
Belke, T.W. Running and responding for the opportunity to run as a function of body weight. Canadian Society for Brain, Behaviour, and Cognitive Sciences Conference, Dalhousie University, Halifax, June, 1995
Boudreau, R. L. and Belke, T. W. The effect of amphetamine on running and responding for the opportunity to run. Brain, Behavior, and Cognitive Sciences Conference, Dalhousie University, Halifax, June, 1995
Belke, T. W. and Heyman, G. M. An application of Herrnstein's hyperbola to the study of the reinforcing efficacy of running. Association for Behavior Analysis Meeting, Chicago, IL, May 1993
Belke, T. W. The effect of deprivation on the relative value of different food items. Association for Behavior Analysis Meeting, San Francisco, CA, May, 1992.
Belke, T. W. Preference for less frequent reinforcement. Association for Behavior Analysis Meeting, San Francisco, CA, May, 1992.
Belke, T. W., W. D. Pierce, and Powell, R. A. Response rates and post-entry pauses by humans on concurrent-chain schedules of reinforcement. Association for Behavior Analysis Meeting, Philadelphia, May 1988.
Belke, T. W., Powell, R. A., Pierce, W. D., Caldeway, A., Sigurdson, T., and McNeill, T. Determinants of choice in humans and pigeons. Association for Behavior Analysis Meeting, Nashville, May, 1987.
Belke, T. W., Hatt, L., and Pierce, W. D. Human performance on concurrent-chain schedules. Association for Behavior Analysis Meeting, Milwaukee, WI, May, 1986.
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OTHER PROFESSIONAL CONTRIBUTIONS
Board of Editors of the Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior (2002-2005)
Consulting Editor for the Learning & Behavior (2003-2006)
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COURSES TAUGHT
Psychology 1001, Introduction to Psychology I, Mount Allison University (2003)
Psychology 2111, Drugs and Behavior, Mount Allison University (2002 - Present)
Psychology 2051, Introduction to Brain and Behavior, Mount Allison University (1994 - 2002); changed to Psychology 2101 Biopsychology in 2000-2001
Psychology 3051, Brain Mechanisms of Complex Behavior, Mount Allison University (1994 - 2001); changed to Psychology 3101 Human Neuropsychology in 2000 - 2001
Psychology 3011, Conditioning, Mount Allison University, (1994-Present); changed to Psychology 3111 Conditioning in 2000-2001
Psychology 4111, Advanced Topics in Conditioning Mount Allison University (2002 - Present)
Psychology 4051, Advanced Topics in Behavioral Neuroscience, Mount Allison University (1995-2001); changed to Psychology 4101 Advanced Topics in Behavioral Neuroscience in 2000-2001
Psychology 281, Learning and Behavior I, University of Alberta, (Spring 1994)
Psychology 302, Psychology of Addiction, University of Alberta (Summer 1994)
Psychology 1020, Laboratory Methods in Psychology, Harvard University (Fall 1992)
Psychology 970, Sophomore Tutorial, Mather House, Harvard University, (1990-1993).
Psychology 970, Sophomore Tutorial, Kirkland House, Harvard University, (1989-1990).
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THESES SUPERVISED
Millar, B. (2003/4). The effect of rats' circadian activity rhythm on the reinforcing value of gaining opportunity to run. Mount Allison University
Christie-Fougere, M. M. (2003/4). Does temporal perception contribute to decreases in running rate within a reinforcement interval?. Mount Allison University
McLaughlin, R. J. (2003/4). Habituation may contribute to decreases in wheel running during 45-s intervals. Mount Allison University
Duncan, I. (2002/3). Relative value and the interrelationship of wheel running and sucrose solution in rats. Mount Allison University
Wagner, J. P. (2002/3). The reinforcing property and the rewarding aftereffect of wheel running in rats: A combination of two paradigms. Mount Allison University
Hancock, S. (2000/1). Postreinforcement pausing for wheel-running and sugar water reinforcements: Unconditioned inhibitory after-effects versus excitatory stimulus effects. Mount Allison University
Hardy, S. (2000/1). The effects of prior development of anorexia on subsequent development of the disorder. Mount Allison University
Guilcher, S. (2000/1). Activity-based anorexia paradigm: The effects of rates of body weight loss on wheel running activity in rats. Mount Allison University
Pressman, S. (1999/0). Does regulation of ethanol intake in rats transfer across contexts? Mount Allison University
Belliveau, J. (1999/0). Extension of Herrnstein's (1961) double-operant form of the matching law to wheel-running reinforcement. Mount Allison University
Newton, A. (1998/9). The effect of methyphenidate on fixed-interval responding maintained by the opportunity to run. Mount Allison University
Dunbar, M. (1997/8). Effects of cocaine on running and responding for the opportunity to run in male Wistar rats. Mount Allison University
Dolomount, R. (1996/7). The effects of metoclopramide on ethanol preference in the rat. Mount Allison University
Dawson, K. (1996/7). A matching law analysis of the effects of raclopride on running and responding for the opportunity to run in rats. Mount Allison University
Dunlop, L. (1996/7). An investigation of the effects of naltrexone on running and responding for the opportunity to run. Mount Allison University
Midgley, P. (1995/6) An investigation of the effects of cholecystokinin, proglumide, and morphine on running activity in rats. Mount Allison University
Neubauer, J. (1995/6) A matching law analysis of the effects of morphine and amphetamine on the running and responding for the opportunity to run in rats. Mount Allison University
Boudreau, R. L. (1994/5) Effects of amphetamine on wheel running as a reinforcer in male Wistar rats. Mount Allison University
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SERVICE
University
Research Comittee (1996-2000)
Animal Care Committee (1998-Present)
Employment Equity Panel (1997-2002)
Mount Allison Faculty Association Executive - Treasurer (1998-1999)
Department
Honours Chair/Co-Chair (1996-2000)
APICS Representative (1996-2000)
Departmental Animal Care Committee (1994 - Present)
Awards Committee (2000-Present)
Department Head (2002-2004)
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