Behavior and Psychological Man / Edward Chace Tolman.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Tolman, Edward Chace, Author.

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource (288 p.)

Edition:

3rd print., Reprint 2020

Place of Publication:

Berkeley, CA : University of California Press, [2020]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1951.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Foreword

Contents

1. A new formula for behaviorism

2. Can instincts be given up in psychology?

3. A behavioristic account of the emotions

4. Behaviorism and purpose

5. Purpose and cognition: the determiners of animal learning

6. A behavioristic theory of ideas

7. A behaviorist's definition of consciousness

8. Sign-gestalt or conditioned reflex?

9. Gestalt and sign-gestalt

10. Psychology versus immediate experience

11. Operational behaviorism and current trends in psychology

12. The acquisition of string pulling by rats-conditioned response or sign-gestalt?

13. The determiners of behavior at a choice point

14. Physiology, psychology, and sociology

15. Prediction of vicarious trial and error by means of the schematic sowbug

16. Psychological man

17. A drive-conversion diagram

18. A stimulus-expectancy need-cathexis psychology

19. Cognitive maps in rats and men

20. Bibliography of the published work of Edward Chace Tolman

Notes:

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 01. Okt 2020)

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

9780520344822

0520344820

OCLC:

1198929963