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Author : B.F. Skinner
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2011-08-24
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9780307797841
The basic book about the controversial philosophy known as behaviorism, written by its leading exponent. Bibliography, index.
Author : John B. Watson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 251 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2017-09-29
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781351314312
Watson was the father of behaviorism. His now-revered lectures on the subject defined behaviorism as a natural science that takes the whole field of human adjustment as its own. It is the business of behaviorist psychology to predict and control human activity. The field has as its aim to be able, given the stimulus, to predict the response, or seeing the reaction, to know the stimulus that produced it. Watson argued that psychology is as good as its observations: what the organism does or says in the general environment. Watson identified "laws" of learning, including frequency and recency. Kimble makes it perfectly clear that Watson's behaviorism, while deeply indebted to Ivan Pavlov, went beyond the Russian master in his treatment of cognition, language, and emotion. It becomes clear that Behaviorism is anything but the reductionist caricature it is often made out to be in the critical literature. For that reason alone, the work merits a wide reading. Behaviorism, as was typical of the psychology of the time, offered a wide array of applications all of which can be said to fall on the enlightened side of the ledger. At a time of mixed messages, Watson argued against child beating and abuse, for patterns of enlightened techniques of factory management, and for curing the sick and isolating the small cadre of criminals not subject to correction. And anticipating Thomas Szasz, he argued against a doctrine of strictly mental diseases, and for a close scrutiny of behavioral illness and disturbances. Kimble's brilliant introduction to Watson ends with a challenge to subjectivism to provide evidence that Watson's behaviorism cannot explain human actions without introspective notions of the mind. This genuine classic of social science hi our century remains relevant not just for the conduct of psychological research, but for studies in the philosophy of science and the sociology of knowledge.
Author : William M. Baum
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2017-01-03
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781119143666
Understanding Behaviorism is a classic textbook that explains the basis of behavior analysis and its application to human problems in a scholarly but accessible manner. Now in its third edition, the text has been substantially updated to include the latest developments over the last decade in behaviour analysis, evolutionary theory, and cultural evolution theory The only book available that explains behavior analysis and applies it to philosophical and practical problems, written by one of today’s best-known and most highly respected behaviorists Explores ancient concepts such as purpose, language, knowledge, and thought, as well as applying behavioural thinking to contemporary social issues like freedom, democracy, and culture Part of the new evolutionary perspective for understanding individual behavior in general and culture in particular – culminates with practical approaches to improving the lives of all humanity
Author : Vicki L. Lee
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 222 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2016-07-15
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781317247531
Originally published in 1988, this title explores and contrasts means and ends psychology with conventional psychology – that of stimuli and response. The author develops this comparison by exploring the general nature of psychological phenomena and clarifying many persistent doubts about psychology. She contrasts conventional psychology (stimuli and responses) involving reductionistic, organocentric, and mechanistic metatheory with alternative psychology (means and ends) that is autonomous, contextual, and evolutionary.
Author : John Staddon
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2021-05-26
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781000389685
This ground-breaking book presents a brief history of behaviorism, along with a critical analysis of radical behaviorism, its philosophy and its applications to social issues. This third edition is much expanded and includes a new chapter on experimental method as well as longer sections on the philosophy of behaviorism. It offers experimental and theoretical examples of a new approach to behavioral science. It provides an alternative philosophical and empirical foundation for a psychology that has rather lost its way. The mission of the book is to help steer experimental psychology away from its current undisciplined indulgence in "mental life" toward the core of science, which is an economical description of nature: parsimony, explain much with little. The elementary philosophical distinction between private and public events, even biology, evolution and animal psychology are all ignored by much contemporary cognitive psychology. The failings of radical behaviorism as well as a philosophically defective cognitive psychology point to the need for a new theoretical behaviorism, which can deal with problems such as "consciousness" that have been either ignored, evaded or muddled by existing approaches. This new behaviorism provides a unified framework for the science of behavior that can be applied both to the laboratory and to broader practical issues such as law and punishment, the health-care system, and teaching.
Author : Steven C. Hayes,Dermot Barnes-Holmes,Bryan Roche
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2007-05-08
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9780306476389
This volume goes beyond theory and gives the empirical and conceptual tools to conduct an experimental analysis of virtually every substantive topic in human language and cognition, both basic and applied. It challenges behavioral psychology to abandon many of the specific theoretical formulations of its most prominent historical leader in the domain of complex human behavior, especially in human language and cognition, and approach the field from a new direction. It will be of interest to behavior theorists, cognitive psychologists, therapists, and educators.
Author : J. E. R. Staddon
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 1841690147
First published in 2001. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Author : John Staddon
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 295 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2014-03-05
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781317755753
This groundbreaking book presents a brief history of behaviorism, the dominant movement in American psychology in the first half of the 20th Century. It then analyzes and criticizes radical behaviorism, as pioneered by B.F. Skinner, and its philosophy and applications to social issues. This second edition is a completely rewritten and much expanded version of the first edition, published nearly 15 years earlier. It surveys what changes have occurred within behaviorism and whether it has maintained its influence on experimental cognitive psychology or other fields. The mission of the book is to help steer experimental psychology away from its current undisciplined indulgence in "mental life" toward the core of science, which is an economical description of nature. The author argues that parsimony -- the elementary philosophical distinction between private and public events, even biology, evolution and animal psychology -- all are ignored by much contemporary cognitive psychology. The failings of radical behaviorism as well as a philosophically defective cognitive psychology point to the need for a new theoretical behaviorism, which can deal with problems such as "consciousness" that have been either ignored, evaded or muddled by existing approaches. This new behaviorism provides a unified framework for the science of behavior that can be applied both to the laboratory and to broader practical issues such as law and punishment, the health-care system, and teaching.
Author : B. F. Skinner
Publisher : B. F. Skinner Foundation
Page : 413 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2014-05-26
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9780989983907
In 1934, at the age of 30, B. F. Skinner found himself at a dinner sitting next to Professor Alfred North Whitehead. Never one to lose an opportunity to promote behaviorism, Skinner expounded its main tenets to the distinguished philosopher. Whitehead acknowledged that science might account for most of human behavior but he would not include verbal behavior. He ended the discussion with a challenge: "Let me see you," he said, "account for my behavior as I sit here saying, 'No black scorpion is falling upon this table.'" The next morning Skinner began this book. It took him over twenty years to complete. This book extends the laboratory-based principles of selection by consequences to account for what people say, write, gesture, and think. Skinner argues that verbal behavior requires a separate analysis because it does not operate on the environment directly, but rather through the behavior of other people in a verbal community. He illustrates his thesis with examples from literature, the arts, and sciences, as well as from his own verbal behavior and that of his colleagues and children. Perhaps it is because this theoretical work provides a way to approach that most human of human behavior that Skinner ofter called Verbal Behavior his most important work.
Author : Mecca Chiesa
Publisher : Cambridge Center for Behavioral
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 0962331147
Author : Jay Moore
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 484 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Psychology
ISBN : STANFORD:36105131606217
Conceptual Foundations of Radical Behaviorism is intended for advanced undergraduate or beginning graduate students in courses within behavior analytic curricula dealing with conceptual foundations and radical behaviorism as a philosophy. Each chapter of the text presents what radical behaviorism says about an important topic in a science of behavior, and then contrasts the radical behaviorist perspective with that of other forms of behaviorism, as well as other forms of psychology.
Author : B. F. Skinner
Publisher : B. F. Skinner Foundation
Page : 457 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9780996453905
Author : John Broadus Watson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 326 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 1958
Category : Behaviorism (Psychology)
ISBN : STANFORD:36105000025754
Author : William R. Uttal
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 218 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 1999-09
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781135666002
This book considers one of the most fundamental, but only infrequently considered, issues in psychology--Are mental processes accessible by means of verbal reports and/or experimental assays? It is argues that this is the main characteristic distinguishing between behaviorism and mentalistic cognitivism. The answer posed by the author is that, with few exceptions and for the most fundamental reasons, mental processes are not accessible and that any psychology, such as contemporary cognitivism, based on a putative analysis of mind into its mental components must be fallacious. Classic and modern arguments against both mentalism and behaviorism are reviewed. In general, it is concluded that most antibehaviorist arguments are based on second order humanistic considerations rather than those underlying the usual scientific standards. Behaviorism represents the best that can be done in a situation of fundamental immeasurability and uncertainty. A modern version is offered in the final chapter of this book.
Author : J. E. R. Staddon
Publisher : Bloomsbury Academic
Page : 136 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Psychology
ISBN : UOM:39015009124127