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Main Title Science and human behavior /
Author Skinner, B. F.
Publisher Macmillan
Year Published 1953
OCLC Number 00191686
ISBN 0029290406; 9780029290408
Subjects Behaviorism (Psychology) ; Behavior--https://idnlmnihgov/mesh/D001519 ; Verhalten ; Human behavior ; Verhalten--(DE-588)4062860-7
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EJBM  BF121.S54 1953 Headquarters Library/Washington,DC 01/19/2016
Collation 461 pages 22 cm.
Contents Notes Section 1: The possibility of a science of human behavior. Can science help? -- A science of behavior -- Why organisms behave -- Section 2: The analysis of behavior -- Reflexes and conditioned reflexes -- Operant behavior -- Shaping and maintaining operant behavior -- Operant discrimination -- The controlling environment -- Deprivation and sanitation -- Emotion -- Aversion, avoidance, anxiety -- Punishment -- Function versus aspect -- The analysis of complex cases -- Section 3: The individual as a whole -- "Self-control" -- Thinking -- Private events in a natural science -- The self -- Section 4: The behavior of people in groups -- Social behavior -- Personal control -- Group control -- Section 5: Controlling agencies -- Government and law -- Religion -- Psychotherapy -- Economic control -- Education -- Section 6: The control of human behavior -- Culture and control -- Designing a culture -- The problem of control. A detailed study of scientific theories of human nature and the possible ways in which human behavior can be predicted and controlled.
Place Published New York,
Title Ser Add Ent Free Press paperback.
PUB Date Free Form 1953
Series Title Untraced A Free Press paperback
BIB Level m
Medium unmediated
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LCCN 53007045
Merged OCLC records 7437456; 9595310; 221116285; 270591907; 317640910; 1055430965; 1061994516; 1128832021; 1169549249; 1201003143; 1201015049; 1201584007; 1201619440; 1201628545; 1201807970; 1201881263; 1201900626; 1201903445; 1201912098; 1201980709; 1201982725; 1202000933; 1202012505
OCLC Time Stamp 20160115134625
Language eng
Origin OCLC
Type CAT
OCLC Rec Leader 03405cam 22006251 45020