Essential Behaviour Analysis

• Main Author: Leslie, Julian
• Format: eBook Book
• Language: English
• Published: United Kingdom Routledge 2002; Taylor and Francis; Oxford University Press; Arnold; Taylor & Francis Group
• Edition: 1
• Series: Essential Psychology
• Subjects: analysts; applied; Behaviorism (Psychology); behavioural; classes; conditioning; lever; Multidisciplinary Psychology; operant; press; processes; Psychology; stimulus; analysts; applied; Operant Responding; Functional Assessment; Aversive Stimulus; classes; Behaviour Analysis; Stimulus Prompts; Variable Interval Schedule; Conditioned Response; Partial Reinforcement Extinction Effect; Classical Conditioning; Post-reinforcement Pause; press; Discriminative Stimulus; Stimulus Equivalence Class; Skinner Box; processes; Operant Response Class; Lever Pressing; stimulus; lever; behavioural; Behavioural Account; Behaviour Analysts; Pick B1; operant; Gaba Benzodiazepine Receptor Complex; Stimulus Equivalence; Stimulus Classes; Conditioned Reinforcer; conditioning; Operant Conditioning; Applied Behaviour Analysis; Fixed Interval Schedules
• ISBN: 9781444118742; 1444118749; 9781138151840; 034076273X; 9780340762738; 113815184X
• DOI: 10.4324/9780203784518

Since the so-called 'cognitive revolution' in psychology in the 1960s, it has often been said that 'behaviourism is dead'. This book demonstrates why this is not the case and how the behavioural approach has continued to flourish.Leslie begins by summarising the behavioural approach to psychology and shows how it differs from other contemporary and cognitive approaches. The basic principles of the discipline are outlined and linked to major areas of interest and importance, such as behavioural neuroscience, resolution of human behavioural problems, and human language and cognition.Behaviour analysis is thus shown to contribute to our developing understanding of the relationship between brain systems and psychological problems, to provide an effective and scientifically based approach to human behavioural problems and to deal with topics central to modern psychology.