Principles of Behavioural Analysis

ISBN-13: 9783718659029 / Angielski / Miękka / 1996 / 388 str.

Julian Leslie; R. Ed. Leslie

Opis

While concentrating on the central tenets of behavioural analysis, this volume demonstrates how behavioural analysis can be seen as a general approach to psychology and how it can be related to the various other conceptual frameworks current in modern psychology. Applications of behavioural processes to clinical and social issues are included in each of the eight chapters which deal with different behavioural processes, and every chapter contains self-assessment materials. Introductory and concluding chapters set the scene from which behavioural analysis developed and indicate its prospects for further development.
This second-level psychology textbook elucidates the basic principles of behaviour that have been developed through the experimental analysis of behaviour and illustrates how those principles are encompassing an increasingly large section of the broad field of psychology. In the seventeen years since the publication of the second edition of this volume, a great deal has happened in the

Spis treści

1 A Scientific Approach to Behavior 2 Operant Conditioning 3 Extinction and Reconditioning 4 Intermittent Reinforcement 5 Classical Conditioning 6 Biological Factors in Conditioning 7 Environmental Control 8 Aversive Contingencies 9 Complex Behavior: Concept Acquisition, Problem Solving, Modeling, and Verbal Behavior 10 Behavioral Analysis: Status and Prospects

O autorze

Julian C. Leslie University of Ulster at Jordanstown, UK