Science and Human Behavior is available as a free pdf book at
http://www.bfskinner.org/bfskinner/PDFBooks.html
Ken
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Kenneth M. Steele, Ph. D. [email protected]
Professor and Assistant Chairperson
Department of Psychology http://www.psych.appstate.edu
Appalachian State University
Boone, NC 28608
USA
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On 3/1/2013 4:29 PM, Paul Brandon wrote:
The Table of Contents of SCIENCE AND HUMAN BEHAVIOR (Skinner, 1965)
TABLE OF CONTENTS
SECTION I: THE POSSIBILITY OF A SCIENCE OF HUMAN BEHAVIOR
I. CAN SCIENCE HELP? 3
II. A SCIENCE OF BEHAVIOR 11
III. WHY ORGANISMS BEHAVE 23
SECTION II: THE ANALYSIS OF BEHAVIOR
IV. REFLEXES AND CONDITIONED REFLEXES 45
V. OPERANT BEHAVIOR 59
VI. SHAPING AND MAINTAINING OPERANT BEHAVIOR 91
VII. OPERANT DISCRIMINATION 204
VIII. THE CONTROLLING ENVIRONMENT 129
IX. DEPRIVATION AND SATIATION 141
X. EMOTION 160
XI. AVERSION, AVOIDANCE, ANXIETY 171
XII. PUNISHMENT 182
XIII. FUNCTION VERSUS ASPECT 194
XIV. THE ANALYSIS OF COMPLEX CASES 204
SECTION III: THE INDIVIDUAL AS A WHOLE
XV. "SELF-CONTROL" 227
XVI. THINKING 242
XVII. PRIVATE EVENTS IN A NATURAL SCIENCE 257
XVIII. THE SELF 283
On Mar 1, 2013, at 1:46 PM, Michael Britt wrote:
To further your points Paul, here is another quote in which, during a brief
discussion on compassion and philanthropic behavior he mentions the importance
of knowledge and of rewards. Again - a very interesting sound byte for any
students who feel that Skinner thought that people were just robots or that
they didn't think or have feelings:
https://soundcloud.com/thepsychfiles/b-f-skinner-on-compassionate
Michael
Michael A. Britt, Ph.D.
[email protected]
http://www.ThePsychFiles.com
Twitter: mbritt
On Mar 1, 2013, at 10:56 AM, Paul Brandon<[email protected]> wrote:
Right!
Comes from teaching about Skinner from the point of view of those opposed to
him.
Skinner made it clear that he favored:
1. Positive reinforcement over aversive control.
2. Natural reinforcers over contrived ones.
That is, he favored using positive reinforcers already in our environments and
rearranging reinforcement contingencies to make them a consequence of behaviors
to be increased in frequency.
Contrived and aversive contingencies were to be used only until control could
be shifted to natural positive ones.
On Mar 1, 2013, at 8:44 AM, Michael Britt wrote:
I think in our attempt to help students differentiate between the major schools of psychology -
psychoanalysis, behaviorism and humanism - we teachers and the textbooks have to simplify things.
I remember leaving my Intro Psych class not being too much of a fan of Skinner. But recently while
"trolling the web" as they say, I found a really interesting interview with Skinner in
which he was asked about his views on education. I extracted two brief sound clips that I think
are interesting. He talks about how we can teach youngsters to read and to play music in ways that
they will find pleasurable. Students might be surprised to hear these kinds of ideas from Skinner.
Maybe it would be an interesting exercise to have students listen to the audio clips without
telling them who's talking and see if they can guess. The giveway terms would be "contrived
reinforcers", but still, I think anyone who might have gotten the idea that Skinner thought
that we are all robots woul!
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hemselves in agreement with him here.
On learning to read:
https://soundcloud.com/thepsychfiles/b-f-skinner-on-learning-to-1
On learning to play music:
https://soundcloud.com/thepsychfiles/b-f-skinner-on-learning-to
Michael
Paul Brandon
Emeritus Professor of Psychology
Minnesota State University, Mankato
[email protected]
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