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...

Since the so-called 'cognitive revolution' in psychology in the 1960s, it has often been said that 'behaviourism is dead'. This book demonstrates why this is not the case and how the behavioural approach has continued to flourish.



Leslie begins by summarising the behavioural approach to psychology and shows how it differs from other contemporary and cognitive approaches. The basic principles of the discipline are outlined and linked to major areas of interest and importance, such as behavioural neuroscience, resolution of human behavioural problems, and human language and...