Research Catalog

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Description

1. x, 461 pages; 21 cm

Summary

1. A detailed study of scientific theories of human nature and the possible ways in which human behavior can be predicted and controlled.

Series statement

1. A Free Press paperback : ; no. 92904

Subject

1. Psychology
2. Human behavior
3. Behavior
4. Psychology
5. psychology
6. human behavior
7. Human behavior
8. Verhalten
9. Gedrag
10. Psicologia
11. Behaviorism (Psychology)
12. Comportement humain

Contents

1. Section 1 : The possibility of a science of human behavior -- 1. Can science help? -- 2. A science of behavior -- 3. Why organisms behave -- Section 2 : The analysis of behavior -- 4. Reflexes and conditioned reflexes -- 5. Operant behavior -- 6. Shaping and maintaining operant behavior -- 7. Operant discrimination -- 8. The controlling environment -- 9. Deprivation and satiation -- 10. Emotion -- 11. Aversion, avoidance, anxiety -- 12. Punishment -- 13. Function versus aspect -- 14. The analysis of complex cases -- Section 3 : The individual as a whole -- 15. "Self-control" -- 16. Thinking -- 17. Private events in a natural science -- 18. The self -- Section 4 : The behavior of people in groups -- 19. Social behavior -- 20. Personal control -- 21. Group control -- Section 5 : Controlling agencies -- 22. Government and law -- 23. Religion -- 24. Psychotherapy -- 25. Economic control -- 26. Education -- Section 6 : The control of human behavior -- 27. Culture and control -- 28. Designing a culture -- 29. The problem of control -- Index.

Owning institution

1. Princeton University Library

Note

1. Includes index.