Pierce, W. David

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

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