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Topic

Subtopic

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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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

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