Description
Book SynopsisTable of ContentsPreface ix
Acknowledgments xi
Part I Multiscale Behavior Analysis 1
1 The Correlation-Based Law of Effect 3
2 Quantitative Prediction and Molar Description of the Environment 24
3 The Trouble With Time 36
4 From Molecular to Molar: A Paradigm Shift in Behavior Analysis 48
5 The Molar View of Behavior and Its Usefulness in Behavior Analysis 73
6 Molar and Molecular Views of Choice 78
7 Rethinking Reinforcement: Allocation, Induction, and Contingency 91
8 Driven by Consequences: The Multiscale Molar View of Choice 120
9 Reinforcement 133
10 Avoidance, Induction, and the Illusion of Reinforcement 139
11 Multiscale Behavior Analysis and Molar Behaviorism: An Overview 171
12 Behavior, Process, and Scale 195
Part II Molar Behaviorism 203
13 Radical Behaviorism and the Concept of Agency 205
14 Commentary on Foxall, "Intentional Behaviorism" 223
15 Behaviorism, Private Events, and the Molar View of Behavior 229
16 Ontology for Behavior Analysis: Not Realism, Classes, or Objects, but Individuals and Processes 248
17 Berkeley, Realism, and Dualism 260
18 What is Suicide? 264
19 Relativity in Hearing and Stimulus Discrimination 266
Part III Culture and Evolution 273
20 Rules, Culture, and Fitness 275
21 Being Concrete about Culture and Cultural Evolution 295
22 Behavior Analysis, Darwinian Evolutionary Processes, and the Diversity of Human Behavior 318
References 345
Index 367
