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Author : Charles Taylor
Publisher : New York, Humanities P
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 1964
Category : Behaviorism (Psychology)
ISBN : UOM:39076005338624
Author : Charles Taylor
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 237 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2021-05-16
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781000389647
The Explanation of Behaviour was the first book written by the renowned philosopher Charles Taylor. A vitally important work of philosophical anthropology, it is a devastating criticism of the theory of behaviourism, a powerful explanatory approach in psychology and philosophy when Taylor's book was first published. However, Taylor has far more to offer than a simple critique of behaviourism. He argues that in order to properly understand human beings, we must grasp that they are embodied, minded creatures with purposes, plans and goals, something entirely lacking in reductionist, scientific explanations of human behaviour. Taylor’s book is also prescient in according a central place to non-human animals, which like human beings are subject to needs, desires and emotions. However, because human beings have the unique ability to interpret and reflect on their own actions and purposes and declare them to others, Taylor argues that human experience differs to that of other animals. Furthermore, the fact that human beings are often directed by their purposes has a fundamental bearing on how we understand the social and moral world. Taylor’s classic work is essential reading for those in philosophy and psychology as well as related areas such as sociology and religion. This Routledge Classics edition includes a new Preface by the author and a new Foreword by Alva Noë, setting the book in philosophical and historical context.
Author : Rom Harré,Paul F. Secord
Publisher : Blackwell Publishers
Page : 348 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 1976
Category : Psychology
ISBN : STANFORD:36105034886312
Author : Charles Taylor
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 1964
Category : Animal behavior
ISBN : 0391000993
Author : Michael Keenan
Publisher : Jessica Kingsley Publishers
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781843103103
This practical book gives detailed guidance on how to develop a tailored Applied Behavioural Analysis programme that includes the key features of ABA: detailed individual behaviour assessment, reinforcement strategies to encourage new behaviours and systematic programme implementation.
Author : Frank Honywill George,Les Johnson
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 1985
Category : Computers
ISBN : 2881241107
Author : Julian Leslie
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2015-10-15
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781444118742
Since the so-called 'cognitive revolution' in psychology in the 1960s, it has often been said that 'behaviourism is dead'. This book demonstrates why this is not the case and how the behavioural approach has continued to flourish. Leslie begins by summarising the behavioural approach to psychology and shows how it differs from other contemporary and cognitive approaches. The basic principles of the discipline are outlined and linked to major areas of interest and importance, such as behavioural neuroscience, resolution of human behavioural problems, and human language and cognition. Behaviour analysis is thus shown to contribute to our developing understanding of the relationship between brain systems and psychological problems, to provide an effective and scientifically based approach to human behavioural problems and to deal with topics central to modern psychology.
Author : C. F. Lowe,M. Richelle,D. E. Blackman,C. M. Bradshaw
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 313 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2022-11-01
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781000649192
Originally published in 1985, Behaviour Analysis and Contemporary Psychology presents chapters from the first European Meeting on the Experimental Analysis of Behaviour. The book is divided into six parts and provides a useful account of issues and work in behaviour analysis by both European and North American contributors at the time. The first part provides an introduction, with following parts looking at behaviourist and ethological approaches; determinants of human operant behaviour; fundamental research and behaviour modification; recent developments in the behavioural analysis of drug effects; ending with an overview of contemporary behaviourism.
Author : Rom Harré,Paul F. Secord
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 1973
Category : Psychology
ISBN : MINN:31951001061461S
Author : J.R. Maze
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2019-03-04
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9780429642968
Originally published in 1983, this title is a determined attack on personality theories current at the time. It critically examines their basic motivational constructs and rejects any that invoke goal-seeking as being inescapably teleological and therefore unacceptable as natural science. Dr Maze argues the necessity for an unqualified determinism in psychology, yet one that incorporates the role of cognitive processes in the formation of behaviour. However, action theories which profess to offer a causal account of apparently goal-seeking or voluntarist behaviour by reference to the internal states of desire for a goal and a belief about how to get it are also dismissed. For the concept of belief as an internal state is argued to be a relativistic one, defined as being intrinsically related to its object. This is an incoherent notion and one which cannot specify anything acceptable as a causal state. The one motivational theory in dynamic psychology which offered a solution to these problems was Sigmund Freud’s formulation of his instinctual drive concept, defined as an innate physiological driving mechanism with preformed consummatory behaviours: his ‘specific actions’. But his hydraulic models have been patronisingly dismissed by modern neurologists, arguing that there are no ‘flush-toilets’ in the central nervous system. This book argues that such a glib dismissal is shallow minded, and that a reformulation of Freud’s concept in terms of modern neuroscience is readily available, though the problem of identifying the relevant structures remains formidable. The book is of immediate interest to all those seriously concerned with the springs and meanings of human behaviour, whether they be psychologists, psychoanalysts, philosophers or those generally interested in social and ethical theory.
Author : John H. Cartwright
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 211 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2023-05-31
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781000945645
In recent years, a new discipline has arisen that argues human behaviour can be understood in terms of evolutionary processes. Evolutionary Explanations of Human Behaviour is an introductory level book covering evolutionary psychology, this new and controversial field. The book deals with three main areas: human reproductive behaviour, evolutionary explanations of mental disorders and the evolution of intelligence and the brain. The book is particularly suitable for the AQA-A A2 syllabus, but will also be of interest to undergraduates studying evolutionary psychology for the first time and anyone with a general interest in this new discipline.
Author : Gordon R. Foxall
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 520 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0415196450
Author : Daniel S. Mills,Kathryn J. Nankervis
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2013-05-20
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9781118708064
Understanding the flexibility and limits of behaviour is essential to improving both the horse's welfare and its performance. This book tackles the fundamental principles which will enable owners, riders, trainers and students to understand scientific principles and apply them in practice. Subjects covered include the analysis of influences on equine behaviour, the perceptual world of the horse, learning and training techniques including the latest developments in "join-up" and "imprint training".
Author : Sigmund A. Wagner
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0415316197
Through the study of green, environmentally friendly consumers, this book incorporates original, groundbreaking anthropological and cognitive research to examine basic aspects of the workings of the human mind.
Author : J.C. Harsanyi
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789401093279
When John Harsanyi came to Stanford University as a candidate for the Ph.D., I asked him why he was bothering, since it was most un likely that he had anything to learn from us. He was already a known scho lar; in addition to some papers in economics, the first two papers in this vol ume had already been published and had dazzled me by their originality and their combination of philosophical insight and technical competence. However, I am very glad I did not discourage him; whether he learned any thing worthwhile I don't know, but we all learned much from him on the foundations of the theory of games and specifically on the outcome of bar gaining. The central focus of Harsanyi's work has continued to be in the theory of games, but especially on the foundations and conceptual problems. The theory of games, properly understood, is a very broad approach to social interaction based on individually rational behavior, and it connects closely with fundamental methodological and substantive issues in social science and in ethics. An indication of the range of Harsanyi's interest in game the ory can be found in the first paper of Part B -though in fact his owncontri butions are much broader-and in the second paper the applications to the methodology of social science. The remaining papers in that section show more specifically the richness of game theory in specific applications.