B.F. Skinner: Consensus And Controversy

Sohan Modgil, Celia Modgil, Sohan Modgil, Celia Modgil

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2005
• eBook ISBN: 9781135389635
• Topic: Bildung
• Subtopic: Bildung Allgemein

Published in the year 1987, B.F.Skinner: Consensus and Contribution is a valuable contribution to the field of Education.

Subject Index

About Behaviorism, 25, 33–9, 35–1, 55, 57, 79, 85, 94, 97, 112, 243, 277, 339, 339

accidents

active, 110

passive, 110

acts

see also behavior

conventional, 66–2

directed, 66

and external world, 64–67

speech, 67

unsupported, 66

adaptation

theory of, 150–3

adaptive modifications, 140

alcoholics

programs for, 89, 89

American Psychological Association, 28, 288, 331

Division of Theoretical and philosophical Psychology of, 28

analysis

levels of, 297–2

Analysis of Sensations, 21

Anderson, 124

Angell, J.R., 179

animals

and cognition, 190, 200

and ‘insightful’ behavior, 293;

see also pigeons

and reinforcement procedures, 49

antimentalism, 5, 85, 86–3, 103, 131

see also mentalism

Antony and Cleopatra, 97

applied analysts

as double agents, 89

and social context, 89–5

‘Are Theories of Learning Necessary?’, 3

art

and creativity, 144

associationism, 8, 20–21, 36, 41, 182, 183–7, 187, 188, 189, 190, 191, 192, 192–9, 194, 195, 197, 200

see also S-R associationism

attention theory, 158, 223

automata theory, 73–1, 79

autoshaping, 188

Bacon, F., 63, 69, 80–8n1, 93

Baer, D., 40

Baldwin, 76

behavior

see also behaviorism;

radical behaviorism;

neobehaviorism causes of, 93

and computer analogies, see computer metaphor

and control, 119, 228

emergence of, 298–3, 302

and prediction, 228

science of, 328–5

unit of, 7–8, 176–200, 339–5

and variation, 133–6

behavior modification, 38, 73, 224

see also behaviorism;

conditioning

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Table of contents

• Cover Page
• Half Title page
• Falmer International Master-Minds Challenged
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Contributors
• Acknowledgements
• Contents
• I Introduction
• II Reflections
• III Radical Behaviorism
• IV The Epistemology of Radical Behaviorism
• V A Psychological Analysis: Political, Social And Moral Implications
• VI Philosophy of Science and Psychology
• VII Variation and Selection: The Evolutionary Analogy in Skinner's Theory
• VIII The Explanatory Power of Skinnerian Principles
• IX Skinner and the Unit of Behavior
• X Skinner's Position against Theory and against Mentalism
• XI Skinner and the ‘Virtus Dormitiva' Argument
• XII Rule-Governed Behavior: A Formulation in Terms of Complex Human Behavior
• XIII Skinner's Analysis of Perception/Cognition
• XIV Naturalistic Ethics
• XV Afterword: Some Concluding Remarks
• XVI Tabulated Summary
• Author Index
• Subject Index