| Edition |
Enlarged edition. |
| Description |
426, 18 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. |
| Series |
The Century psychology series |
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Century psychology series.
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| Contents |
I. Implications of a science of behavior for human affairs, especially for the concept of freedom -- A. Freedom and the control of men -- B. Control of human behavior (abstract) -- C. Some issues concerning the control of human behavior -- D. Design of cultures -- II. Method for the experimental analysis of behavior: its theory and practice, its history, and a glimpse of its future -- A. Are theories of learning necessary? -- B. Analysis of behavior (excerpts) -- C. Case history in scientific method -- D. Experimental analysis of behavior -- E. Reinforcement today -- III. Technology of education -- A. Science of learning and the art of teaching -- B. Teaching machines -- C. Why we need teaching machines -- IV. Analysis of neurotic and psychotic behavior -- A. Critique of psychoanalytic concepts and theories -- B. Psychology in the understanding of mental disease -- C. What is psychotic behavior? -- V. For experimental psychologists only -- A. Current trends in experimental psychology -- B. Flight from the laboratory -- VI. Literary and verbal behavior -- A. Has Gertrude Stein a secret? -- B. Operational analysis of psychological terms -- C. Alliteration in Shakespeare's sonnets: a study in literary behavior -- D. Quantitative estimate of certain types of sound-patterning in poetry -- E. Processes involved in the repeated guessing of alternatives -- VII: Theoretical considerations -- A. Concept of the reflex in the description of behavior -- B. Generic nature of the concepts of stimulus and response -- C. Two types of conditioned reflex and a pseudo-type -- D. Two types of conditioned reflex: a reply to Konorski and Miller -- E. Hull's "Principles of behavior" -- VIII. Miscellany -- A. Some quantitative properties of anxiety (with W.K. Estes) -- B. "Superstition in the pigeon -- C. Second type of "superstition" in the pigeon (with W.H. Morse) -- D. How to teach animals -- E. Baby in a box -- F. Pigeons in pelican. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references. |
| Processing Action |
Legacy 2017 UoY |
| Subject |
Psychology.
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Human behavior.
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Human behavior. (OCoLC)fst00962811
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Psychology. (OCoLC)fst01081447
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Psychology. https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D011584
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| Genre/Form |
Essay. https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D020474
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| Other Form: |
Online version: Skinner, B.F. (Burrhus Frederic), 1904-1990. Cumulative record. Enl. ed. New York, Appleton-Century-Crofts [1961] (OCoLC)565153803 |
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Online version: Skinner, B.F. (Burrhus Frederic), 1904-1990. Cumulative record. Enl. ed. New York, Appleton-Century-Crofts [1961] (OCoLC)607852603 |
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