Science and human behavior.
Publisher: Macmillan
Published: 1953
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 461
Subjects: Psychology.
Table of contents: title: The possibility of a science of human behavior. Can science help? -- A science of behavior -- Why organisms behave -- The analysis of human behavior. Reflexes and conditioned reflexes -- Operant behavior -- Shaping and maintaining operant behavior -- Operant discrimination -- The controlling environment -- Deprivation and satiation -- Emotion -- Aversion, avoidance, anxiety -- Punishment -- Function versus aspect -- The analysis of complex cases -- The individual as a whole. “Self-control” -- Thinking -- Private events in a natural science -- The self -- The behavior of people in groups. Social behavior  -- Personal control -- Group control -- Controlling agencies. Government and law -- Religion -- Psychotherapy -- Economic control -- Education -- The control of human behavior. Culture and control -- Designing a culture -- The problem of control.