Behavior Analysis and Learning, 6th Edition

W. David Pierce, Carl D. Cheney

Taylor and Francis: Using a consistent Skinnerian perspective, Behavior Analysis and Learning: A Biobehavioral Approach, Sixth Edition provides an advanced introduction to the principles of behavior analysis and learned behaviors, covering a full range of principles from basic respondent and operant conditioning through applied behavior analysis into cultural design. The textbook uses Darwinian, neurophysiological, and biological theories and research to inform B. F. Skinner’s philosophy of radical behaviorism.

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Table of Contents for Behavior Analysis and Learning, 6th Edition

Front Matter
Chapter 1: A Science of Behavior: Perspective, History, and Assumptions
Chapter 2: The Experimental Analysis of Behavior
Chapter 3: Reflexive Behavior and Respondent Conditioning
Chapter 4: Reinforcement and Extinction of Operant Behavior
Chapter 5: Schedules of Reinforcement
Chapter 6: Aversive Control of Behavior
Chapter 7: Operant–Respondent Interrelationships: The Biological Context of Conditioning
Chapter 8: Stimulus Control
Chapter 9: Choice and Preference
Chapter 10: Conditioned Reinforcement
Chapter 11: Correspondence Relations: Imitation and Rule-Governed Behavior
Chapter 12: Verbal Behavior
Chapter 13: Applied Behavior Analysis