About Behaviorism

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Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, Feb 12, 1976 - Psychology - 304 pages
The basic book about the controversial philosophy known as behaviorism, written by its leading exponent.
 

Contents

Introduction
3
The Causes of Behavior
10
The World Within the Skin
24
Innate Behavior
37
Operant Behavior
51
Perceiving
80
Verbal Behavior
98
Thinking
113
Knowing
151
The Inner World of Motivation and Emotion
163
The Self and Others
184
The Question of Control
208
What Is Inside the Skin?
228
Summing Up
241
Index
283
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Causes and Reasons
132

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About the author (1976)

B.F. SKINNER presented a formulation of operant behavior and a method for its investigation that are basic to the analysis of behavior now practiced in hundreds of laboratories throughout the world. For this work, Dr. Skinner was given teh National Medal of Science by President Lyndon Johnson and the Gold Medal of the American Psychological Foundation. Many practical applications of the method have been made in other sciences, such as physciology and psycho-pharmacology. The principles of operant conditioning led to programmed instruction and the modern conception of teaching machines, for which Dr. Skinner received many awards from educational organizations. He was also responsible for the first research in what has come to be called behavior therapy.

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