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Donald (Al) Riley Emeritus Ph.D., Ohio State University 
Departmental Area(s): Cognition, Brain & Behavior
Professor Riley is retired and not accepting new students. Named 2004 Psychology Distinguished Alumnus by Ohio State University. Professor Riley received his Ph.D. in Psychology from The Ohio State University in 1950. That same year he joined the Psychology faculty of the University of California at Berkeley. Rising through the ranks, he became Professor in 1964, served as Associate Vice-Chancellor for Academic Development for UC Berkeley, and chaired the department from 1982 through 1987. He has been Professor Emeritus since 1991. A force in the psychological literature for 50 years, Professor Riley actively published from 1950 to 2000 to become one of the pre-eminent researchers in animal learning and cognition. Some of his well-known papers include his critique of Kohler's theory of association published in Psychological Review with Leo Postman (1957), his sole-authored Psychological Review paper (1958), "The nature of the effective stimulus in animal discriminative learning: Transposition reconsidered", and his book (1968), Discrimination in Learning. Source Ohio State University
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