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About Behaviorism
Author | : B.F. Skinner |
Publsiher | : Vintage |
Total Pages | : 304 |
Release | : 2011-08-24 |
Genre | : Psychology |
ISBN | : 9780307797841 |
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The basic book about the controversial philosophy known as behaviorism, written by its leading exponent. Bibliography, index.
Walden Two
Author | : B. F. Skinner |
Publsiher | : Hackett Publishing |
Total Pages | : 321 |
Release | : 2005-07-15 |
Genre | : Psychology |
ISBN | : 9781603840361 |
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A reprint of the 1976 Macmillan edition. This fictional outline of a modern utopia has been a center of controversy ever since its publication in 1948. Set in the United States, it pictures a society in which human problems are solved by a scientific technology of human conduct.
Verbal Behavior
Author | : B. F. Skinner |
Publsiher | : B. F. Skinner Foundation |
Total Pages | : 413 |
Release | : 2014-05-26 |
Genre | : Psychology |
ISBN | : 9780989983907 |
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In 1934, at the age of 30, B. F. Skinner found himself at a dinner sitting next to Professor Alfred North Whitehead. Never one to lose an opportunity to promote behaviorism, Skinner expounded its main tenets to the distinguished philosopher. Whitehead acknowledged that science might account for most of human behavior but he would not include verbal behavior. He ended the discussion with a challenge: "Let me see you," he said, "account for my behavior as I sit here saying, 'No black scorpion is falling upon this table.'" The next morning Skinner began this book. It took him over twenty years to complete. This book extends the laboratory-based principles of selection by consequences to account for what people say, write, gesture, and think. Skinner argues that verbal behavior requires a separate analysis because it does not operate on the environment directly, but rather through the behavior of other people in a verbal community. He illustrates his thesis with examples from literature, the arts, and sciences, as well as from his own verbal behavior and that of his colleagues and children. Perhaps it is because this theoretical work provides a way to approach that most human of human behavior that Skinner ofter called Verbal Behavior his most important work.
Beyond Freedom and Dignity
Author | : B. F. Skinner |
Publsiher | : Hackett Publishing |
Total Pages | : 241 |
Release | : 2002-03-15 |
Genre | : Psychology |
ISBN | : 9781603840811 |
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In this profound and profoundly controversial work, a landmark of 20th-century thought originally published in 1971, B. F. Skinner makes his definitive statement about humankind and society. Insisting that the problems of the world today can be solved only by dealing much more effectively with human behavior, Skinner argues that our traditional concepts of freedom and dignity must be sharply revised. They have played an important historical role in our struggle against many kinds of tyranny, he acknowledges, but they are now responsible for the futile defense of a presumed free and autonomous individual; they are perpetuating our use of punishment and blocking the development of more effective cultural practices. Basing his arguments on the massive results of the experimental analysis of behavior he pioneered, Skinner rejects traditional explanations of behavior in terms of states of mind, feelings, and other mental attributes in favor of explanations to be sought in the interaction between genetic endowment and personal history. He argues that instead of promoting freedom and dignity as personal attributes, we should direct our attention to the physical and social environments in which people live. It is the environment rather than humankind itself that must be changed if the traditional goals of the struggle for freedom and dignity are to be reached. Beyond Freedom and Dignity urges us to reexamine the ideals we have taken for granted and to consider the possibility of a radically behaviorist approach to human problems--one that has appeared to some incompatible with those ideals, but which envisions the building of a world in which humankind can attain its greatest possible achievements.
The Behavior of Organisms
Author | : B. F. Skinner |
Publsiher | : B. F. Skinner Foundation |
Total Pages | : 457 |
Release | : 1990 |
Genre | : Psychology |
ISBN | : 9780996453905 |
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B F Skinner
Author | : Marc N. Richelle |
Publsiher | : Psychology Press |
Total Pages | : 257 |
Release | : 2016-04-01 |
Genre | : Psychology |
ISBN | : 9781317716129 |
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B.F. Skinner died in August 1990. He had been praised as one of the most influential psychologists of the 20th century, but was also attacked by a variety of opponents within and outside the field of psychology. This introduction to his work is first of all a guide to a correct reading of his writings, a reading devoid of the distortions and misinterpretations often conveyed by many commentators, including psychologists. It frames Skinner's contributions with reference to major European traditions in psychological sciences, namely Pavlov, Freud, Lorenz and Piaget. Crucial aspects of Skinner's theory and methodological stands are discussed in the context of contemporary debates: special attention is devoted to the relationship of psychology with biology and the neurosciences, to the cognitivist movement, to the status of language and to the explanation of novelty and creativity in human behaviour.; Finally, Skinner's social and political philosophy is presented with an emphasis on the provocative aspects of an analysis of current social practices which fail to solve most of the urgent problems humankind is confronted with today. Both in science proper and in human affairs at large, Skinner's thought is shown to be not behind, as is often claimed, but ahead of the times, be it in his interactive view of linguistic communication, in his very modern use of the evolutionary analogy to explain the dynamics of behaviour, or in his vision of ecological constraints.
The Psychology of B F Skinner
Author | : William O'Donohue,Kyle E. Ferguson |
Publsiher | : SAGE Publications |
Total Pages | : 296 |
Release | : 2001-03-15 |
Genre | : Psychology |
ISBN | : 9781506317786 |
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Behaviorists, or more precisely Skinnerians, commonly consider Skinner's work to have been misrepresented, misunderstood, and to some extent defamed. In this book, the author clarifies the work of B F Skinner, and puts it into historical and philosophical context. Though not a biography, the book discusses Skinner himself, in brief. But the bulk of the book illuminats Skinner's contributions to psychology, his philosophy of science, his experimental research program (logical positivism) and the behavioral principles that emerged from it, and applied aspects of his work. It also rebuts criticism of Skinner's work, including radical behaviorism, and discusses key developments by others that have derived from it.
B F Skinner
Author | : Daniel W. Bjork |
Publsiher | : Amer Psychological Assn |
Total Pages | : 298 |
Release | : 1997-01-01 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 1557984166 |
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This biography of one of the world's most eminent psychologists describes Skinner's youth, family and education, his early and lingering desires to become famous as a writer or artist, his lifelong fascination with literary and bohemian figures, his difficult life and his devotion to his children.