Science And Human Behavior
1st Edition
Published on 18. December 2012
464 pages
978-1-4767-1615-2 (ISBN)
Description
The psychology classic?a detailed study of scientific theories of human nature and the possible ways in which human behavior can be predicted and controlled?from one of the most influential behaviorists of the twentieth century and the author of Walden Two.
?This is an important book, exceptionally well written, and logically consistent with the basic premise of the unitary nature of science. Many students of society and culture would take violent issue with most of the things that Skinner has to say, but even those who disagree most will find this a stimulating book.? ?Samuel M. Strong, The American Journal of Sociology
?This is a remarkable book?remarkable in that it presents a strong, consistent, and all but exhaustive case for a natural science of human behavior...It ought to be...valuable for those whose preferences lie with, as well as those whose preferences stand against, a behavioristic approach to human activity.? ?Harry Prosch, Ethics
?This is an important book, exceptionally well written, and logically consistent with the basic premise of the unitary nature of science. Many students of society and culture would take violent issue with most of the things that Skinner has to say, but even those who disagree most will find this a stimulating book.? ?Samuel M. Strong, The American Journal of Sociology
?This is a remarkable book?remarkable in that it presents a strong, consistent, and all but exhaustive case for a natural science of human behavior...It ought to be...valuable for those whose preferences lie with, as well as those whose preferences stand against, a behavioristic approach to human activity.? ?Harry Prosch, Ethics
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Burrhus Frederic Skinner was a psychologist, behaviorist, author, inventor, and social philosopher.
Content
- Intro
- Dedication
- Section I: The Possibility of a Science of Human Behavior
- Chapter I. Can Science Help?
- Chapter II. A Science of Behavior
- Chapter III. Why Organisms Behave
- Section II: The Analysis of Behavior
- Chapter IV. Reflexes and Conditioned Reflexes
- Chapter V. Operant Behavior
- Chapter VI. Shaping and Maintaining Operant Behavior
- Chapter VII. Operant Discrimination
- Chapter VIII. The Controlling Environment
- Chapter IX. Deprivation and Satiation
- Chapter X. Emotion
- Chapter XI. Aversion, Avoidance, Anxiety
- Chapter XII. Punishment
- Chapter XIII. Function Versus Aspect
- Chapter XIV. The Analysis of Complex Cases
- Section III: The Individual as a Whole
- Chapter XV. "Self-Control"
- Chapter XVI. Thinking
- Chapter XVII. Private Events in a Natural Science
- Chapter XVIII. The Self
- Section IV: The Behavior of People in Groups
- Chapter XIX. Social Behavior
- Chapter XX. Personal Control
- Chapter XXI. Group Control
- Section V: Controlling Agencies
- Chapter XXII. Government and Law
- Chapter XXIII. Religion
- Chapter XXIV. Psychotherapy
- Chapter XXV. Economic Control
- Chapter XXVI. Education
- Section VI: The Control of Human Behavior
- Chapter XXVII. Culture and Control
- Chapter XXVIII. Designing a Culture
- Chapter XXIX. The Problem of Control
- Index
- Copyright
