Focusing on applied behavioural analysis, this text uses generalization programming to show students how to apply behavioural concepts to complex everyday situations with which they are familiar. Each concept is introduced, defined, and illustrated, followed by recall questions and hypothetical stories. Students learn how to identify a variety of examples of that concept while discriminating from the non-examples provided.
This book provides a representative collection of some of B.F. Skinner's best-known papers. Each paper begins with an editor's note and concludes with a postscript by Dr. Skinner. The collection focuses on Skinner's laboratory work, several of his major theories, and applications of his principles in animal training, education, and child rearing. The book also includes a brief autobiography and a complete bibliography of Skinner's published works.
ABC of Behavioural Methods (Parent, Adolescent and Child Training Skills (PACTS))
Wolfgang Köhler (1887-1967) was one of the founders of Gestalt psychology, the influential school that argues that perception is best understood as an organized pattern rather than as separate parts. Penetrating in its insights and lucid in presentation, Gestalt Psychology (1947) is Köhler’s definitive statement of Gestalt theory.
An Analysis of Philip Zimbardo's The Lucifer Effect (The Macat Library)
by Alexander O'Connor
What makes good people capable of committing bad – even evil – acts? Few psychologists are as well-qualified to answer that question as Philip Zimbardo, a psychology professor who was not only the author of the classic Stanford Prison Experiment – which asked two groups of students to assume the roles of prisoners and guards in a makeshift jail, to dramatic effect – but also an active participant in the trial of a US serviceman who took part in the violent abuse of Iraqi prisoners in the wake of...
This comprehensive survey describes the basic principles, theories, controversies and experiments in the field of learning. Focusing on both classic studies and recent developments and trends, it deals with how people and animals learn and how learning impacts behaviours. The emphasis throughout is on the importance of learning principles in everyday life.
This is a book about moods. Though I will define the term somewhat more carefully in Chapter 1, it might help to note here that I use the word "mood" to refer to affective states which do not stimulate the relatively specific response tendencies we associate with "emotions." Instead, moods are pervasive and global, having the capability of influencing a broad range of thought processes and behavior. My interest in mood was provoked initially by the empirical and conceptual contri butions of Alic...
Growing at an ever-increasing pace for over a century, the solid body of concepts and facts that constitute the science of learning demand a comprehensive, systematic introduction. Completely up-to-date and written in a direct, easy-to-read style that is suitable for undergraduates, The Science of Learning is such an introduction. Because its focus is on what is known rather than what is speculated, this book differs from other learning texts by not dwelling on which theories are or are not in v...
This supplement is divided into two parts. Part I provides a section-by-section, chapter-by-chapter summary of the key concepts, principles and equations from Russ Hibbeler's Engineering Mechanics text. Part II is a workbook which explains how to draw and use free-body diagrams when solving problems in Dynamics. Also included is student access code for: www.prenhall.com/hibbeler a protected Website that provides over 100 statics/dynamics problems with solutions, MATLAB (R) and Mathcad (R) mec...
A renowned psychoanalyst offers a clear-eyed, thought-provoking examination of humankind's most destructive emotion, and the seductive power it has to tear our world apart. . We all get angry at the built-in frustrations and humiliations of everyday life. But few of us ever experience the intense and perverse hatred that inspires acts of malignant violence such as suicide bombings or ethnic massacres. In Hatred , Dr. Willard Gaylin, one of America's most respected psychiatrists, describes how ra...
Man and His Symbols owes its existence to one of Jung's own dreams. The great psychologist dreamed that his work was understood by a wide public, rather than just by psychiatrists, and therefore he agreed to write and edit this fascinating book. Here, Jung examines the full world of the unconscious, whose language he believed to be the symbols constantly revealed in dreams. Convinced that dreams offer practical advice, sent from the unconscious to the conscious self, Jung felt that self-understa...
Learn to change the emotional bad habits that make you unhappy. - Recognize Your Emotional Bad Habits (and start to break them) - Throw Off Your Security Blanket (and accept that you can have happiness) - Talk Tenderly To Yourself (and increase self-esteem) - Use The "To You-Ness To Me-Ness" Technique (and respond to negative comments with firm conviction, not rage) - Get Rid Of The Imposter Phenomenon (and stop devaluing yourself) - Accept Praise (and cease being your own wors...