Behavior Analysis and Learning

"Behavior Analysis and Learning, Fourth Edition" is an essential textbook covering the basic principles in the field of behavior analysis and learned behaviors, as pioneered by B. F. Skinner. The textbook provides an advanced 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. Elaborating on Darwinian components and biological connections with behavior, the book treats the topic from a consistent world view of selectionism.The functional relations between the organism and the environment are described, and their application in accounting for old behavior and generating new behavior is illustrated. Expanding on concepts of past editions, the fourth edition provides updated coverage of recent literature and the latest findings. There is increased inclusion of biological and neuroscience material, as well as more data correlating behavior with neurological and genetic factors. The material presented in this book provides the reader with the best available foundation in behavior science and is a valuable resource for advanced undergraduate and graduate students in psychology or other behavior-based disciplines. In addition, a website of supplemental resources for instructors and students makes this new edition even more accessible and student-friendly.

ISBN 0805862609   Pages 448 ISBN13 9780805862607 (What's this?)   Volumes 1 Publisher Lawrence Erlbaum Associates Inc   Weight (grammes) 975 Imprint Lawrence Erlbaum Associates Inc   Published in Mahwah Format Hardback   Previous ISBN 9780805844894 Publication date 01 Apr 2008   Height (mm) 254 Library of Congress BF199   Width (mm) 178 DEWEY 150.1943   Spine width (mm) 25 DEWEY edition DC22   Academic level Undergraduate, Postgraduate

		Foreword by Philip N. Hineline
		Preface
1		A Science of Behavior: Perspective, History, and Assumptions		1
		Science and behavior		2
		New directions: Behavior analysis and neuroscience		5
		Focus on: B. F. Skinner		9
		A brief history of behavior analysis		11
		Science and behavior: Some assumptions		18
		Chapter summary		21
2		The Experimental Analysis of Behavior		23
		Functional analysis of behavior		23
		Functional analysis of the environment		25
		Tactics of behavioral research		28
		Focus on: Operant baselines and behavioral neuroscience		32
		Single-subject research		33
		Focus on: Assessment of behavior change		34
		Advanced section: Perceiving as behavior		36
		Chapter summary		39
3		Reflexive Behavior and Respondent Conditioning		41
		Phylogenetic behavior		41
		Ontogenetic behavior		46
		Temporal relations and conditioning		51
		Second-order respondent conditioning		53
		On the applied side: Drug use, abuse, and complexities of respondent conditioning		53
		Note on: Physiology and the control of preparatory responses by conditioned stimuli		54
		Advanced section: Complex conditioning		56
		Aspects of complex conditioning		56
		The Rescorla-Wagner model of conditioning		58
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