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040 _aUniversity of Cebu-Banilad
_cUniversity of Cebu-Banilad
245 _aThe selection of behavior :
_bthe operant behaviorism of B.F. Skinner: comments and consequences /
_cedited by A. Charles Catania and Stevan Harnard.
260 _aNew York :
_bCambridge University Press,
_cc1988.
300 _axxii, 563 pages ;
_c24 pages.
336 _2rdacontent
_atext
337 _2rdamedia
_aunmediated
338 _2rdacarrier
_avolume
504 _aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 _aContents: Introduction — Canonical papers of B.F. Skinner — 1 Selection by consequences — 2 Methods and theories in the experimental analysis of behavior — 3 The operational analysis of psychological terms — 4 An operant analysis of problem solving — 5 Behaviorism at fifty — 6 The phylogeny and ontogeny of behavior.
520 _a"The core of this volume consists of several classic articles by B. F. Skinner. commentaries on those articles by scholars in a variety of disciplines, and Skinner's responses to those commentaries. That core is preceded by a brief introduction to Skinner and his work; it is followed by a summing up - an exchange between Skinner and the editors on some of the major issues raised in the articles, commentaries, and responses. Each "target" article is followed by commentaries arranged in alphabetical order by first author. Skinner's response follows immediately after each commentary, and is distinguished by his initials, BFS, and a change in type size. The affiliations listed for each commentator are those current at the time the commentary was submitted. The volume also includes a bibliography of Skinner's published work, a reference section keyed to the articles and commentaries in which a given reference appears, and name and subject indexes. This project began in a casual way. In 1980, Stevan Harnad, Editor of Behavioral and Brain Sciences (henceforth BBS), had asked me to serve as Associate Editor for the experimental analysis of behavior. At the time when Skinner's research laboratory was still active I had been a graduate student in the Department of Psychology at Harvard, my current research involved work with both human and nonhuman organisms, and I was past editor of the Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior. But after the first couple of years of my BBS term I had been singularly unsuccessful in generating new material. My task was to invite or encourage authors to submit works that would eventually become "BBS. treatments": After review for suitability, the papers would be sent out for commentary to scholars in the relevant disciplines and the author would then reply. The issues of BBS usually consisted of several treatments, supplemented occasionally by "continuing commentary" on earlier material. By the spring of 1982, I had reviewed some BBS papers that had been submitted independently of any initiative of mine, but not one of the authors I had suggested had yet come through with a manuscript." —Preface
521 _aAdult
541 _xYap, Feliciana
_yCollege of Psychology
_zPsychology
546 _aText in English
650 _aBehavior.
700 _aCatania, A. Charles,
_eeditor.
700 _aHarnad, Stevan,
_eeditor.
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998 _cLeslie [new]
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