Author: B.F. Skinner
Publisher: Vintage
Keywords: behaviorism
Number of Pages: 304
Published: 1976-02-12
List price: $14.00
ISBN-10: 0394716183
ISBN-13: 9780394716183

The basic book about the controversial philosophy known as behaviorism, written by its leading exponent. Bibliography, index.

Author: John. B. Watson
Publisher: West Press
Keywords: behaviorism
Number of Pages: 260
Published: 2008-10-07
List price: $28.95
ISBN-10: 1443752681
ISBN-13: 9781443752688

Preface WHILE this volume is written as a series of lectures and in a somewhat free and easy style, every effort has been made to present facts in unmutilated form and to state theoretical positions with accuracy. In approaching subjective psychology for the first time, the reader meets with one great difficulty. He comes in from the world of things-a world which he can manipulate, hold up, examine and change about. When he comes to subjective psychology, he leaves all this behind he has to face a world of intangibles, a world of definitions, and it takes him weeks to find out what this kind o

Author: John B. Watson
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Keywords: behaviorism
Number of Pages: 324
Published: 1970-05-01
List price: $19.95
ISBN-10: 0393005240
ISBN-13: 9780393005240

Author: Jay Moore
Publisher: Sloan Educational Publishing
Keywords: behaviorism, radical, foundations, conceptual
Number of Pages: 440
Published: 2007-03-15
List price: $52.95
ISBN-10: 1597380113
ISBN-13: 9781597380119

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.

Authors:John Watson,  Gregory Kimble,
Publisher: Transaction Publisher
Keywords: behaviorism
Number of Pages: 251
Published: 1997-01-01
List price: $24.95
ISBN-10: 1560009942
ISBN-13: 9781560009948

Watson, the father of behaviourism, was an influential figure in 20th century psychology. This classic work explains the aim of the field of behaviourism, which is to be able to, given the stimulus, predict the response, or seeing the reaction, to know the stimulus that produced it.

Author: Robert Wozniak
Publisher: Routledge
Keywords: psychology, history, years, behaviorism
Number of Pages: 2673
Published: 1995-08-08
List price: $2,045.00
ISBN-10: 0415092582
ISBN-13: 9780415092586

These volumes collect the seminal works that brought behaviorism from the margin to the mainstream of scientific psychology. The period covered extends from 1913, when John B. Watson argued that the proper goal of psychology was the prediction and control of behaviour, to 1928, when John Frederick Dashiell surveyed the progress of objectivist psychological theory and research. Volume I collects critical articles by Dunlap, Hot, Lashley, Mead, Thorndike, Tolman, Watson, Yerkes and others concerned with the continuing articulation of the behaviorist program. Volumes 2-6 reprint the full texts o

Author: William M. Baum
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
Keywords: behavior, analysis, society, culture, understanding, science, behaviorism
Number of Pages: 255
Published: 1994-03
List price: $39.00
ISBN-10: 0065002865
ISBN-13: 9780065002867

"There can be a science of behavior." So proposes the author at the beginning of this book. It discusses what definition of "science" might suit a science of behaviour and what "behaviour" might mean for science. It also explores implications of a science of behaviour for purpose, knowledge, freedom, social relationships, culture, cultural change and public policy. The book is suitable for a wide audience - undergraduates, graduate students, biologists, social scientists, philosophers and anyone interested in human behaviour, animal behaviour and culture. Throughout, links are made along conte