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Control : a history of behavioral psychology / John A. Mills.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Mills, John A.
- Series:
- Qualitative Studies in Psychology ; 14
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Behaviorism (Psychology)--History.
- Behaviorism (Psychology).
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (258 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : New York University Press, c1998.
- New York, NY : New York University Press, [2000]
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Behaviorism has been the dominant force in the creation of modern American psychology. However, the unquestioned and unquestioning nature of this dominance has obfuscated the complexity of behaviorism. Control serves as an antidote to this historical myopia, providing the most comprehensive history of behaviorism yet written. Mills successfully balances the investigation of individual theorists and their contributions with analysis of the structures of assumption which underlie all behaviorist psychology, and with behaviorism's role as both creator and creature of larger American intellectual
- Contents:
- Introduction: shaping a profession: behaviorism in American psychology
- The birth of psychological behaviorism
- From apogee to perigee: radical behaviorism appears but fails to take root
- The conceptual basis of neobehaviorism and behavioral science
- The behaviorist as research manager: clark L. hull and the Writing of principles of behavior
- The behaviorist as philosopher: B. F. Skinner
- Behaviorists as social engineers: behavior modification applied to abnormal psychology
- Faithful unto this last: the neobehaviorist hegemony.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 195-238) and index.
- This eBook is made available Open Access under a Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 30. Jan 2024)
- ISBN:
- 9780814759967
- 0814759963
- 9780585424804
- 0585424802
- OCLC:
- 780425917
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