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Behavior and Mind

Author : Howard Rachlin
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 184 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Behavior and Mind written by Howard Rachlin and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1994 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book attempts to synthesize two apparently contradictory views of psychology: as the science of internal mental mechanisms and as the science of complex external behavior. Most books in the psychology and philosophy of mind reject one approach while championing the other, but Rachlin argues that the two approaches are complementary rather than contradictory. Rejection of either involves disregarding vast sources of information vital to solving pressing human problems--in the areas of addiction, mental illness, education, crime, and decision-making, to name but a few. Where previous books have focused either on psychology as an abstract science of the mind or as a strictly empirical approach to behavioral problems, this is the only book that attempts to show how the best modern theoretical work on mental mechanisms relates to the best modern empirical work on complex behavioral problems. It will be of considerable interest to psychologists and philosophers across many disciplines and perspectives.

The Roots of Prosocial Behavior in Children

Author : Nancy Eisenberg
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521337717
Total Pages : 212 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (377 download)

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Download or read book The Roots of Prosocial Behavior in Children written by Nancy Eisenberg and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1989-08-25 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What kinds of childbearing practices foster the development of helping, sharing, and other prosocial behaviours? What roles do biology and culture play in the development of prosocial behaviour? In this book, Nancy Eisenberg and Paul Mussen review and summarize scholarly research that has been devoted to the development of prosocial behaviour in children, and examine the variety of influences that contribute to children's prosocial development, including the media, parents, peers, biology, culture, personal characteristics, as well as situational determinants. The authors argue that prosocial behaviour can be learned and is modifiable, and they suggest ways that parents, teachers, and other can enhance prosocial development. In addition, the authors attempt to communicate the advances in the study of prosocial development that have taken place over the last decade. The book highlights some questions that have not yet been addressed adequately by researchers, and suggests areas for future work.

Synthesizing Nature-nurture

Author : Gilbert Gottlieb
Publisher : Psychology Press
ISBN 13 : 1317778588
Total Pages : 204 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (177 download)

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Download or read book Synthesizing Nature-nurture written by Gilbert Gottlieb and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 2014-09-19 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume provides a primarily nontechnical summary of experimental and theoretical work conducted over the course of 35 years which resulted in a developmental framework capable of integrating causal influences at the genetic, neural, behavioral, and ecological levels of analysis. It describes novel solutions to the nature-nurture problem at both the empirical and theoretical levels. Following field observations, laboratory experiments led to the discovery of the nonobvious prenatal experiential basis of instinctive behavior in two species--ground-nesting mallard ducklings and hole-nesting wood ducklings. This work also describes the experiences that lead to the rigid canalization of behavioral development as well as the social and sensory experiences that favor the continuance of flexibility. The author also describes in detail a developmental psychobiological systems view that supports a behaviorally and psychologically mediated pathway to evolutionary change in humans and other species. Written in a way that is readable to even the nonspecialist, the text is accompanied by numerous photographs that illuminate and add personal meaning to the written words. Readers will be engaged by the emphasis on the human aspect of the scientific enterprise.

The Origins and Development of Problem Behavior Theory

Author : Richard Jessor
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3319408860
Total Pages : 229 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (194 download)

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Download or read book The Origins and Development of Problem Behavior Theory written by Richard Jessor and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-09-14 with total page 229 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book, the first in a series of collected works, traces the evolution of Problem Behavior Theory from its inception to its current status as a widely used framework for understanding and addressing risky behavior in youth and young adults. The theory is explored from its beginnings as a study of deviant behavior and alcohol abuse in a tri-ethnic community through its expansion to include psychosocial aspects of development, risk and protective factors, and health behavior in the larger societal context of youth behavior. In its current form, Problem Behavior Theory constitutes an interdisciplinary approach to research personal and societal factors that are involved in both normative and problematic behavior. Chapters highlight the many contributions of the theory to social science and its potential for informing evidence-based intervention and prevention programs for youth and young adults. Topics featured in this book include: The Tri-Ethnic Community Study. The Socialization of Problem Behavior in Youth Study. The Young Adult Follow-up Study. The problem behavior syndrome. The cross-national generality of Problem Behavior Theory. Problem Behavior Theory and adolescent pro-social behavior. The Origins and Development of Problem Behavior Theory is a must-have resource for researchers/professors, clinicians, and related professionals as well as graduate students in social and developmental psychology, criminology/criminal justice, public health, social work, and related disciplines.

Origins and Evolution of Behavior Disorders

Author : Stella Chess
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780674644779
Total Pages : 348 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (447 download)

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Download or read book Origins and Evolution of Behavior Disorders written by Stella Chess and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 1987 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Beginning in 1956, Stella Chess and Alexander Thomas tracked the lives of 133 children from infancy to young adulthood, examining in detail their psychological development over a twenty-five-year period. The result was the groundbreaking New York Longitudinal Study. This book, first published in 1984, presents a complete report of the study, including analyses of the data and exploration of such fundamental questions as gender differences, antecedents of adult behavior patterns, and factors that contribute to depression and other disorders. Special emphasis is given to the clinical evaluation and treatment of patients with behavioral abnormalities. The authors discuss key findings: the important role of parental guidance, the continuities and discontinuities across developmental stages, the crucial effects of temperament on psychological development, and the usefulness of a âeoegoodness of fitâe model for understanding the relationship between person and environment and for describing the evolution of behavior disorders.

Uncover the Roots of Challenging Behavior

Author : Michelle Salcedo
Publisher : Free Spirit Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1631982885
Total Pages : 193 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (319 download)

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Download or read book Uncover the Roots of Challenging Behavior written by Michelle Salcedo and published by Free Spirit Publishing. This book was released on 2019-01-28 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Teach social skills and enrich classrooms to reduce problem behaviors and nurture growth. When teachers create environments that teach skills rather than punish individual actions, they reduce behavior problems and nurture the growth of all learners. This book expertly guides early childhood teachers to analyze their classroom elements, routines, and responses to children. Much like gardeners who adjust soil, water, or fertilizer to help flowers bloom, educators of young children must look beyond challenging behaviors to what a child’s actions are communicating about her learning environment or home life. Digital content includes all forms from the book along with a PDF presentation. A free PLC/Book Study Guide for use with communities of practice is available at freespirit.com/PLC.

Behavior and Its Causes

Author : T.L. Smith
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 9780792328155
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (281 download)

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Download or read book Behavior and Its Causes written by T.L. Smith and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 1994-06-30 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The rise of cognitive science in the 1960s was widely heralded as a scientific revolution -- an interpretation that implied the decline and eventual death of behavioral psychology. Although many forms of behavioral psychology did indeed disappear, there was a striking exception: the program of operant psychology founded by B.F. Skinner. This program actually grew at a rapid pace during the `cognitive revolution' and shows no signs of fading away. What, then, is its place within psychology, and in particular, what is its relationship with cognitive psychology? This book attempts to answer that question. Distinguishing between operant psychology and the philosophy of radical behaviorism, it concludes that even though radical behaviorism may have been a failure, the operant program of research has been a success. Furthermore, operant psychology and cognitive psychology complement one another, each having its own domain within which it contributes something valuable to, but beyond the reach of, the other.

Roots of Behavior

Author : Eugene L. Bliss
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 339 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (466 download)

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Download or read book Roots of Behavior written by Eugene L. Bliss and published by . This book was released on 1968 with total page 339 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Roots of Human Behavior

Author : Myron A. Hofer
Publisher : W.H. Freeman
ISBN 13 : 9780716712787
Total Pages : 331 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (127 download)

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Book Synopsis The Roots of Human Behavior by : Myron A. Hofer

Download or read book The Roots of Human Behavior written by Myron A. Hofer and published by W.H. Freeman. This book was released on 1981-01-01 with total page 331 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Control

Author : John A. Mills
Publisher : NYU Press
ISBN 13 : 0814756115
Total Pages : 259 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (147 download)

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Download or read book Control written by John A. Mills and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 1998-10 with total page 259 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Critiquing as well as chronicling the development of this dominant early force in modern US psychology, Mills (psychology, U. of Saskatchewan) demonstrates how a positivist view of human motivation hindered the ability of behaviorist pioneers like Watson, Hull, and Skinner to account for the "black box" variables that shape behavior. While radical behaviorism failed to take root, neobehaviorists left an important legacy to behavioral science and debates over social engineering. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Love and Hate

Author : Irenaus Eibl-Eibesfeldt
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351508156
Total Pages : 291 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (515 download)

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Download or read book Love and Hate written by Irenaus Eibl-Eibesfeldt and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-07-05 with total page 291 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author argues that there are specific turning points in evolution. Structures and behavioral patterns that evolved in the service of discrete functions sometimes allow for unforeseen new developments as a side effect. In retrospect, they have proven to be pre-adaptations, and serve as raw material for natural selection to work upon. Love and Hate was intended to complement Konrad Lorenz's book, On Aggression, by pointing out our motivations to provide nurturing, and thus to counteract and correct the widespread but one-sided opinion that biologists always present nature as bloody in tooth and claw and intra-specific aggression as the prime mover of evolution. This simplistic image is, nonetheless, still with us, all the more regrettably because it hampers discussion across scholarly disciplines. Eibl-Eibesfeldt argues that leaders in individualized groups are chosen for their pro-social abilities. Those who comfort group members in distress, who are able to intervene in quarrels and to protect group members who are attacked, those who share, those who, in brief, show abilities to nurture, are chosen by the others as leaders, rather than those who use their abilities in competitive ways. Of course, group leaders may need, beyond their pro-social competence, to be gifted as orators, war leaders, or healers. Issues of love and hate are social in origin and hence social in consequence. Life has emerged on this planet in a succession of new forms, from the simplest algae to man-man the one being who reflects upon this creation, who seeks to fashion it himself and who, in the process, may end by destroying it. It would indeed be grotesque if the question of the meaning of life were to be solved in this way. In language that is clear and accessible throughout, arguing forcefully for the innate and "preprogrammed" dispositions of behavior in higher vertebrates, including humans, Eibl-Eibesfeldt steers a middle course in discussing the development of cultural and ethical norms while insisting on their matrix of biological origins.

Behavior and Its Causes

Author : T L Smith
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 9789401581035
Total Pages : 284 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (81 download)

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Download or read book Behavior and Its Causes written by T L Smith and published by Springer. This book was released on 2014-01-15 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The rise of cognitive science in the 1960s was widely heralded as a scientific revolution -- an interpretation that implied the decline and eventual death of behavioral psychology. Although many forms of behavioral psychology did indeed disappear, there was a striking exception: the program of operant psychology founded by B.F. Skinner. This program actually grew at a rapid pace during the cognitive revolution' and shows no signs of fading away. What, then, is its place within psychology, and in particular, what is its relationship with cognitive psychology? This book attempts to answer that question. Distinguishing between operant psychology and the philosophy of radical behaviorism, it concludes that even though radical behaviorism may have been a failure, the operant program of research has been a success. Furthermore, operant psychology and cognitive psychology complement one another, each having its own domain within which it contributes something valuable to, but beyond the reach of, the other.

Development and Maintenance of Prosocial Behavior

Author : Ervin Staub
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 1461326451
Total Pages : 519 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (613 download)

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Download or read book Development and Maintenance of Prosocial Behavior written by Ervin Staub and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2013-11-09 with total page 519 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book was inspired by an intimate, stimulating, intellectually enrich ing conference that took place in Poland. However, the book is not a conference report. Rather, at the time of the conference, participants agreed that it would be worthwhile to create a volume representing the international state of knowledge in pro social behavior, and many of them agreed to write chapters. This volume is the outcome. The book contains chapters by outstanding researchers and scholars who have made substantial contributions to some aspect of scholarship about pro social behavior-helpfulness, generosity, kindness, coopera tion, or other behavior that benefits people. The book concerns itself with how prosocial behavior comes about and what influences contrib ute to or inhibit it; how prosocial behavior, or values and other personal characteristics that promote prosocial behavior, develop; how socializa tion, peer interaction, and other experiences contribute to development; and with the cognitive, emotional, and behavioral consequences of re ceiving help. Some chapters directly, and a number of them implicitly, concern themselves with applications of knowledge about prosocial be havior, particularly with the question of how cooperation and behavior that benefits other people can be promoted. The purpose of the book is. in part to show where the field stands and what knowledge we have accumulated, and in part to suggest fu ture directions and advance the field. It is a truly international book, with contributors from most countries where research on pro social be havior is being conducted.

Roots of Behavior

Author : Eugene L. Bliss
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 360 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (89 download)

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Download or read book Roots of Behavior written by Eugene L. Bliss and published by . This book was released on 1969 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Roots of Behavior

Author : Eugene L. Bliss
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (114 download)

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Download or read book Roots of Behavior written by Eugene L. Bliss and published by . This book was released on 1968 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Synthesizing Nature-nurture

Author : Gilbert Gottlieb
Publisher : Psychology Press
ISBN 13 : 131777857X
Total Pages : 212 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (177 download)

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Download or read book Synthesizing Nature-nurture written by Gilbert Gottlieb and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 2014-09-19 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume provides a primarily nontechnical summary of experimental and theoretical work conducted over the course of 35 years which resulted in a developmental framework capable of integrating causal influences at the genetic, neural, behavioral, and ecological levels of analysis. It describes novel solutions to the nature-nurture problem at both the empirical and theoretical levels. Following field observations, laboratory experiments led to the discovery of the nonobvious prenatal experiential basis of instinctive behavior in two species--ground-nesting mallard ducklings and hole-nesting wood ducklings. This work also describes the experiences that lead to the rigid canalization of behavioral development as well as the social and sensory experiences that favor the continuance of flexibility. The author also describes in detail a developmental psychobiological systems view that supports a behaviorally and psychologically mediated pathway to evolutionary change in humans and other species. Written in a way that is readable to even the nonspecialist, the text is accompanied by numerous photographs that illuminate and add personal meaning to the written words. Readers will be engaged by the emphasis on the human aspect of the scientific enterprise.

Behavior Analysis and Learning

Author : W. David Pierce
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351779796
Total Pages : 1222 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (517 download)

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Download or read book Behavior Analysis and Learning written by W. David Pierce and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-06-14 with total page 1222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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. The sixth edition expands focus on neurophysiological mechanisms and their relation to the experimental analysis of behavior, providing updated studies and references to reflect current expansions and changes in the field of behavior analysis. By bringing together ideas from behavior analysis, neuroscience, and epigenetics under a selectionist framework, this textbook facilitates understanding of behavior at environmental, genetic, and neurophysiological levels. This "grand synthesis" of behavior, neuroscience, and neurobiology roots behavior firmly in biology. The book includes special sections, "New Directions," "Focus On," "Note On," "On the Applied Side," and "Advanced Section," which enhance student learning and provide greater insight on specific topics. This book is a valuable resource for advanced undergraduate and graduate students in psychology or other behavior-based disciplines, especially behavioral neuroscience. For additional resources to use alongside the textbook, consult the Companion Website at www.routledge.com/cw/pierce.