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Behavior Analysis and Learning

Fourth Edition

Behavior Analysis and Learning
  • By W. David Pierce, and Carl D. Cheney.

Published May 2008

Behavior Analysis and Learning, Fourth Edition is an essential textbook covering the basic principles in the field of behavior analysis and learned behaviors, as pioneered by B. F. Skinner. The textbook provides an advanced introduction to operant conditioning from a very consistent Skinnerian…
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Behavior Analysis Around the World

A Special Issue of the International Journal of Psychology

Behavior Analysis Around the World
  • Edited by Rubén Ardila.

Published December 2006

Behaviour analysis has tradionally been one of the main areas and main approaches to psychology. It is based on laboratory research and in conceptualizations from distinguished figures of the discipline, such as Skinner, Pavlov, Mach, and even Watson and Thorndike. It has generated a science (the…
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How to Think Like a Behavior Analyst

Understanding the Science That Can Change Your Life

How to Think Like a Behavior Analyst
  • By Jon Bailey, and Mary Burch.

Published May 2006

How to Think Like a Behavior Analyst is a revolutionary resource for understanding complex human behavior and making potentially significant quality of life improvements. Behavior analysts offer a worldview of the human condition different than almost any other professional perspective. To a…
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Personality: Critical Concepts

  • Edited by Cary L Cooper, Cary L. Cooper and Lawrence A. Pervin.
  • Introduction by Cary L. Cooper, and Lawrence A. Pervin.

Published September 1998

Almost everything we do as humans is influenced by our personalities. This set of critical readings in personality theory brings together all the major contributions in the field. All the classical papers on the critical theories of personality are included, as well as more contemporary work on…
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B.F. Skinner

A Reappraisal

  • By Marc N. Richelle.

Published July 1995

B.F. Skinner died in August 1990. He had been praised as one of the most influential psychologists of the 20th century, but was also attacked by a variety of opponents within and outside the field of psychology. This introduction to his work is first of all a guide to a correct reading of his…
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Behaviourism

The Early Years

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Published September 1994

Behaviourism:The Early Years collects critical articles concerned with the articulation of the behaviourist programme and reprints the full texts of five of the most important monographs contributing to the early growth of behaviourism.…
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An Introduction to Psycho-Oncology

  • By Patrice Guex.
  • Translated by Heather Goodare.
  • Foreword by Karol Sikora.

Published December 1993

Cancer is extremely common and in many situations a truly frightening disease, but for too long the psychological aspects and effects have been ignored. An Introduction to Psycho-Oncology deals in a clear and simple manner with the reactions of cancer patients to their illness, and the ways in…
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The Roots of Behaviourism

  • Edited by Robert H. Wozniak.

Published September 1993

In his 1913 behaviourist manifesto John B Watson urged psychologists to adopt "a unitary scheme of animal response...(that) recognizes no dividing line between man and brute." His call was heeded. By the 1930s, methodological behaviourism and animal behaviour research were dominant features of the…
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Child Psychopathology

Diagnostic Criteria and Clinical Assessment

  • Edited by Stephen R. Hooper, George W. Hynd and Richard E. Mattison.

Published December 1992

These two companion volumes provide a comprehensive review and critical evaluation of the major DSM-III and DSM-III-R child disorders. Their major goal is to provide diagnostic and assessment guidelines that are based on scientific literature in specific clinical domains. Each chapter contains a…
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Developmental Disorders

Diagnostic Criteria and Clinical Assessment

  • Edited by Stephen R. Hooper, George W. Hynd and Richard E. Mattison.

Published October 1991

These two companion volumes provide a comprehensive review and critical evaluation of the major DSM-III and DSM-III-R child disorders. Their major goal is to provide diagnostic and assessment guidelines that are based on scientific literature in specific clinical domains. Each chapter contains a…
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