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Understanding Behaviorism Behavior, Culture, and Evolution.
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Newark :
John Wiley & Sons, Incorporated,
2017.
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| Colección: | New York Academy of Sciences Ser.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Intro
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Contents
- Preface to the Third Edition
- Acknowledgements
- Part I What is Behaviorism?
- Chapter 1 Behaviorism: Definition and History
- Historical Background
- From Philosophy to Science
- Objective Psychology
- Comparative Psychology
- Early Behaviorism
- Free Will Versus Determinism
- Definitions
- Arguments For and Against Free Will
- Social Arguments
- Aesthetic Arguments
- Folk Psychology
- Summary
- Further Reading
- Keyterms
- Chapter 2 Behaviorism as Philosophy of Science
- Realism versus Pragmatism
- Realism
- The Objective Universe
- Discovery and Truth
- Sense Data and Subjectivity
- Explanation
- Pragmatism
- Science and Experience
- Conceptual Economy
- Explanation and Description
- Radical Behaviorism and Pragmatism
- Summary
- Further Reading
- Keyterms
- Chapter 3 Public, Private, Natural, and Fictional
- Mentalism
- Public and Private Events
- Natural Events
- Natural, Mental, and Fictional
- Objections to Mentalism
- Autonomy: Mental Causes Obstruct Inquiry
- Superfluity: Explanatory Fictions are Uneconomical
- Category Mistakes
- Ryle and the Para-Mechanical Hypothesis
- Rachlin's Molar Behaviorism
- Private Events
- Private Behavior
- Self-Knowledge and Consciousness
- Summary
- Further Reading
- Keyterms
- Part II A Scientific Model of Behavior
- Chapter 4 Evolutionary Theory and Reinforcement
- Evolutionary History
- Natural Selection
- Reflexes and Fixed Action Patterns
- Reflexes
- Fixed Action Patterns
- Respondent Conditioning
- Reinforcers and Punishers
- Operant Behavior
- Physiological Factors
- Overview of Phylogenetic Influences
- History of Reinforcement
- Selection by Consequences
- The Law of Effect
- Shaping and Natural Selection
- Historical Explanations
- Summary
- Further Reading
- Keyterms
- Chapter 5 Purpose and Reinforcement
- History and Function
- Using Historical Explanations
- History Versus Immediate Cause
- Gaps of Time
- Functional Units
- Species as Functional Units
- Activities as Functional Units
- Three Meanings of Purpose
- Purpose as Function
- Purpose as Cause
- Purposive Behavior
- Purposive Machines
- Selection by Consequences
- Creativity
- Purpose as Feeling: Self-Reports
- Talking About the Future
- Talking About the Past
- Feelings as By-Products
- Summary
- Further Reading
- Keyterms
- Chapter 6 Stimulus Control and Knowledge
- Stimulus Control
- Discriminative Stimuli
- Extended Sequences and Discriminative Stimuli
- Discrimination
- Knowledge
- Procedural Knowledge: Knowing How
- Declarative Knowledge: Knowing About
- Declarative Knowledge and Stimulus Control
- What is a Lie?
- Self-Knowledge
- Public Versus Private Stimuli
- Introspection
- The Behavior of Scientists
- Observation and Discrimination
- Scientific Knowledge
- Pragmatism and Contextualism
- Summary
- Further Reading