Control
Subtitle: a history of behavioral psychology
By: John A. Mills.
Publisher: New York University Press
Published: 1998
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 246
Subjects: Behaviorism (Psychology) -- History.
Description: Behaviorism was the dominant force in the creation of modern American psychology, and it continues to undergird the field to this day. Even so, a full understanding of the complexity of behaviorism has remained elusive. Its dominance within American psychology has, paradoxically, blocked our efforts to understand its role and its nature. Control serves as an antidote to this historical myopia, providing the most comprehensive history of behaviorism yet written. Mills successfully balances the investigation of individual theorists and their contributions with analyses of the structures of assumption that underlie all behaviorist psychology, and of behaviorism's role as both creator and creature of larger American intellectual patterns, practices, and values.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 195-238) and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: shaping a profession: behaviorism in American psychology; title: The birth of psychological behaviorism; title: From apogee to perigee: radical behaviorism appears but fails to take root; title: The conceptual basis of neobehaviorism and behavioral science; title: The behaviorist as research manager: clark L. hull and the Writing of principles of behavior; title: The behaviorist as philosopher: B. F. Skinner; title: Behaviorists as social engineers: behavior modification applied to abnormal psychology; title: Faithful unto this last: the neobehaviorist hegemony.