The Goal of B. F. Skinner and Behavior Analysis

by Daniel J. Weeks and Robert W. Proctor

In this new volume in Springer-Verlag's series "Recent Research in Psychology", Drs. Proctor and Weeks examine what has long been a "self-asserted superiority" of behavior analysts and Skinnerian researchers. Most behavior-analytic views derive from the philosophy of radical behaviorism, as conceived by B.F. Skinner, and prescribe a "world view" where environmental contingencies determine all aspects of behavior. This view necessarily assumes all...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0387972366
• ISBN13: 9780387972367
• Release Date: April 1990
• Publisher: Springer
• Length: 223 Pages
• Weight: 0.76 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.1" x 9.2"