Description
Book SynopsisUsing a behavioral perspective, Behavior Analysis and Learning provides an advanced introduction to the principles of behavior analysis and learned behaviors, covering a full range of principles from basic respondent and operant conditioning through applied behavior analysis into cultural design. The text uses Darwinian, neurophysiological, and biological theories and research to inform B. F. Skinner's philosophy of radical behaviorism.
The seventh edition expands the focus on neurophysiological mechanisms and their relation to the experimental analysis of behavior, providing updated studies and references to reflect current expansions and changes in the field of behavior analysis. By bringing together ideas from behavior analysis, neuroscience, epigenetics, and culture under a selectionist framework, the text facilitates understanding of behavior at environmental, genetic, neurophysiological, and sociocultural levels. This grand synthesis of behavior, neuroscien
Table of Contents
- A Science of Behavior: Perspective, History, and Assumptions
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- The Experimental Analysis of Behavior
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- Reflexive Behavior and Respondent Conditioning
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- Reinforcement and Extinction of Operant Behavior
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- Schedules of Reinforcement
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- Aversive Control of Behavior
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- Operant–Respondent Interrelationships: The Biological Context of Conditioning
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- Stimulus Control
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- Choice and Preference
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- Conditioned Reinforcement
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- Correspondence Relations: Imitation and Rule-Governed Behavior
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- Verbal Behavior
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- Applied Behavior Analysis
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- Three Levels of Selection: Biology, Behavior, and Culture
