Behavior analysis and learning /
W David Pierce; Carl D Cheney
- 4th ed.
- New York: Psychology Press, 2008.
- xv,: 431p.
1 Indhold: A science of behavior : perspective, history and assumptions -- 2 The experimental analysis of behavior -- 3 Reflexive behavior and respondent conditioning -- 4 Reinforcement and extinction of operant behavior -- 5 Schedules of reinforcement -- 6 Aversive control of behavior -- 7 Operant-respondent interrelationships and the biological 8 context of conditioning -- 9 Stimulus control --10 Choice and preference -- 12 Conditioned reinforcement -- Correspondence relations : imitation and rule-governed behavior 13 Verbal behavior --14 Applied behavior analysis -- 15 Three levels of selection : biology, behavior, and culture
Covers the basic principles of behavior analysis and learned behaviors, as pioneered by B F Skinner. This book presents an introduction to operant conditioning from a very consistent Skinnerian perspective. It covers a range of principles from basic respondent conditioning through applied behavior analysis into cultural design