Human Behavior in Today's World
Published on 30. May 1991
Book
Hardback
328 pages
978-0-275-93588-7 (ISBN)
Description
In this volume a distinguished group of scholars examines the contributions that behavior analysis can make in meeting the crucial challenges that threaten the survival of individuals, families, societies, and nations, as well as the planet itself. Beginning with the premise that human behavior is the primary cause of our problems, the authors look at methods that allow us to change it and at how these methods may be applied in specific areas--ranging from international violence and environmental degradation to substance abuse and training of the handicapped.
The first part, which includes a paper by B. F. Skinner and a condensation of Murray Sidman's Coercion and Its Fallout (1989), focuses on the critical problems created by human behavior in the modern world and stresses the need for behavior scientists to become more involved in meeting these global challenges. Part II, The Science of Behavior Change, offers clear explanations of behavioral theory and discusses recent experimental work. Part III describes applications of behavior analysis to education, daycare, and the training of the handicapped. Principles, methods, and applications of stimulus control are explained in Part IV. The remaining sections cover the negative effects of coercion, the use of behavior analysis to achieve cooperation in the workplace, the relation of culture to behavior, applications to the practice of psychology, and related topics. Effectively linking behavior analysis to a broad range of practical concerns, this book will be of interest to professionals in psychology and other social sciences as well as educators, decision makers in government and industry, and general readers.
The first part, which includes a paper by B. F. Skinner and a condensation of Murray Sidman's Coercion and Its Fallout (1989), focuses on the critical problems created by human behavior in the modern world and stresses the need for behavior scientists to become more involved in meeting these global challenges. Part II, The Science of Behavior Change, offers clear explanations of behavioral theory and discusses recent experimental work. Part III describes applications of behavior analysis to education, daycare, and the training of the handicapped. Principles, methods, and applications of stimulus control are explained in Part IV. The remaining sections cover the negative effects of coercion, the use of behavior analysis to achieve cooperation in the workplace, the relation of culture to behavior, applications to the practice of psychology, and related topics. Effectively linking behavior analysis to a broad range of practical concerns, this book will be of interest to professionals in psychology and other social sciences as well as educators, decision makers in government and industry, and general readers.
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Language
English
Place of publication
United States
Publishing group
Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Target group
College/higher education
Interest Age: From 7 to 17 years
Dimensions
Height: 240 mm
Width: 161 mm
Thickness: 22 mm
Weight
661 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-275-93588-7 (9780275935887)
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WARIS ISHAQ is Research Coordinator and a board member at Pacific Behavior Sciences Center, Inc., a nonprofit mental health research and service delivery organization in Eugene, Oregon, and a consultant in psychotherapy and clinical hypnosis in Stamford, Connecticut. He has been teaching university courses dealing with behavior analysis principles and procedures since 1976. Dr. Ishaq is currently working on a book, Behavior Analysis Made Easy, for students at the undergraduate level.
Content
Preface Introduction: Behavior Analysis in a Socio-Political Context by Waris Ishaq The World Is Falling Apart Why We Are Not Acting to Save the World by B. F. Skinner The Sky Is Falling by Paul Chance Behavior Analysis and Global Survival by John A. Nevin Beware of Coercion by Murray Sidman and Waris Ishaq The Science of Behavior Change Source and Control of Behavior by Carl D. Cheney Free Operant Behavior Research Methods by David P. Rider Verbal Behavior: A Four-Term Contingency Relation by Ernest A. Vargas Stimulus Equivalence: Implications for Teaching by Robert Stromer Everyday Stimulus Equivalences for the Brain-Injured by Gina Green Schedules of Reinforcement by Edward K. Crossman Behaviorology: Its Paradigm by Ernest A. Vargas Education: Problems and Solutions Contingencies in Day Care Licencing Standards by Julie S. Vargas A Rational Technology of Education by Debra Cheney Positive Reinforcement in Education by Murray Sidman Behavior Analysis with the Mildly Handicapped by Betty Fry Williams and T. F. McLaughlin Stimulus Control in Etiology and Treatment Stimulus Control: Principles and Procedures by David R. Thomas Application: Substance Abuse and Dependency by Charles Hickis and David R. Thomas Application: Smoking by Charles Lyons Applications in the Practice of Psychology Clinical Behavior Analysis by Floyd O'Brien Culture and Behavior Walden Two in Real Life: Behavior Analysis in the Design of a Culture by Comunidad Los Horcones Behavior Analysis Across Cultures by Waris Ishaq In the World of Work Behavior Analysis in Organizations by William K. Redmon Epilogue Wrap-Up: Behavior Analysis is Doing Good Well by T. A. Brigham Index