Behavior analysis and learning: a biobehavioral approach

✍ Scribed by W. David Pierce, Carl D. Cheney

• Publisher: Psychology Press
• Year: 2017
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 639
• Edition: 6
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Using a consistent Skinnerian perspective, Behavior Analysis and Learning: A Biobehavioral Approach, Sixth Edition 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 textbook uses Darwinian, neurophysiological, and biological theories and research to inform B.F. Skinner’s philosophy of radical behaviorism.
The sixth edition expands 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, and epigenetics under a selectionist framework, this textbook facilitates understanding of behavior at environmental, genetic, and neurophysiological levels. This “grand synthesis” of behavior, neuroscience, and neurobiology roots behavior firmly in biology. The book includes special sections, “New Directions,” “Focus On,” “Note On,” “On the Applied Side,” and “Advanced Section,” which enhance student learning and provide greater insight on specific topics.
This book is a valuable resource for advanced undergraduate and graduate students in psychology or other behavior-based disciplines, especially behavioral neuroscience. For additional resources to use alongside the textbook, consult the Companion Website at www.routledge.com/cw/Pierce.

✦ Table of Contents

Contents......Page 8
Foreword......Page 12
Preface......Page 16
1 A Science of Behavior: Perspective, History, and Assumptions......Page 18
2 The Experimental Analysis of Behavior......Page 50
3 Reflexive Behavior and Respondent Conditioning......Page 80
4 Reinforcement and Extinction of Operant Behavior......Page 114
5 Schedules of Reinforcement......Page 152
6 Aversive Control of Behavior......Page 192
7 Operant–Respondent Interrelationships: The Biological Context of Conditioning......Page 238
8 Stimulus Control......Page 272
9 Choice and Preference......Page 308
10 Conditioned Reinforcement......Page 350
11 Correspondence Relations: Imitation and Rule-Governed Behavior......Page 382
12 Verbal Behavior......Page 414
13 Applied Behavior Analysis......Page 452
14 Three Levels of Selection: Biology, Behavior, and Culture......Page 488
Glossary......Page 518
References......Page 554
Author Index......Page 610
Subject Index......Page 630