This introduction focuses on basic research findings and illustrates behavior principles with everyday human
examples. The Second Edition has retained the positive features of the first edition, while adding new aspects
as suggested by reviewers, instructors and students. It now contains a more thorough treatment of the principles
and processes of respondent conditioning, dividing its coverage into two chapters -- one devoted to reflexes and
simple conditioning and the other focused on compound conditioning and complex respondent processes.
Table of Contents
Foreword.
Preface.
A Science of Behavior: Perspective, History and Assumptions.
The Experimental Analysis of Behavior.
Reflexive Behavior and Respondent Conditioning.
Reinforcement and Extinction of Operant Behavior.
Schedules of Reinforcement.
Aversive Control of Behavior.
Operant-Respondent Interrelationships and the Biological Context of Conditioning.
Stimulus Control.
Choice and Preference.
Conditioned Reinforcement.
Correspondent Relations:
Imitation and Rule-Governed Behavior.
Verbal Behavior.
Applied Behavior
Analysis.
Three Levels of Selection: Biology, Behavior and Culture.
