Behavior analysis and learning / W David Pierce; Carl D Cheney

By:

Pierce, W. David

Contributor(s):

Cheney,carl D [Co-Author]

Material type: Text

TextLanguage: English Publication details: New York: Psychology Press, 2008.Edition: 4th edDescription: xv,: 431pISBN:

9780805862607

Subject(s):

DDC classification:

150.19434 PIE-B

Contents:

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

Summary: 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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Item type	Current library	Collection	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode	Item holds
Books	Library, SPAB D-1	Non Fiction	150.19434 PIE-B (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		001911

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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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