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  • In Defence of Empirical Psychology (Psychology Revivals)

    by D. E. Broadbent ...
    Series series Psychology Revivals
    Originally published in 1973, this book contains the 1971 William James Lectures at Harvard, the first by that name to be given by a British psychologist. In addition, there are reprints of four shorter lectures which had not been easily available before. Together the resulting collection gave a broad picture of a number of advances in human psychology in the previous ten years. Memory, attention, ... Read more

    $77.99 USD

  • Behaviour (Psychology Revivals)

    by D. E. Broadbent ...
    Series series Psychology Revivals
    Original blurb from 1961: For most laymen the science of behaviour hardly exists. Few people have any clear idea of its methods, its history or, above all, its significance. Beside the popular interest aroused, for example, by the achievements of Freud, the work of the behaviourists is almost unknown. Yet this is a science which is of the highest importance, has practical applications of immediate ... Read more

    $49.99 USD

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  • About Behaviorism

    by B.F. Skinner ...
    A seminal work that delves into the depths of one of psychology's most influential and controversial philosophies.Written by a leading proponent of behaviorism, this comprehensive book offers an exploration of the principles and arguments that underpin this groundbreaking approach to understanding human behavior."About Behaviorism is an opportunity to match wits with one of the great men of ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

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  • Science And Human Behavior

    by B.F Skinner ...
    **The psychology classic—a detailed study of scientific theories of human nature and the possible ways in which human behavior can be predicted and controlled—**from one of the most influential behaviorists of the twentieth century and the author of Walden Two.“This is an important book, exceptionally well written, and logically consistent with the basic premise of the unitary nature of science. ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

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  • Verbal Behavior

    by B. F. Skinner ...
    Series series B. F. Skinner Reprint Series; Edited by Julie S. Vargas
    In 1934, at the age of 30, B. F. Skinner found himself at a dinner sitting next to Professor Alfred North Whitehead. Never one to lose an opportunity to promote behaviorism, Skinner expounded its main tenets to the distinguished philosopher. Whitehead acknowledged that science might account for most of human behavior but he would not include verbal behavior. He ended the discussion with a ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • The Predictive Mind

    by Jakob Hohwy ...
    A new theory is taking hold in neuroscience. It is the theory that the brain is essentially a hypothesis-testing mechanism, one that attempts to minimise the error of its predictions about the sensory input it receives from the world. It is an attractive theory because powerful theoretical arguments support it, and yet it is at heart stunningly simple. Jakob Hohwy explains and explores this theory ... Read more

    $36.89 USD

  • The Making and Breaking of Affectional Bonds

    by John Bowlby ...
    Series series Routledge Classics
    Helping both parents and psychologists to arrive at a better understanding of the inner emotional world of the infant, this selection of key lectures by Bowlby includes the seminal one that gives the volume its title. Informed by wide clinical experience, and written with the author's well-known humanity and lucidity, the lectures provide an invaluable introduction to John Bowlby’s thought and ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • Principles of Psychology

    A Systematic Text in the Science of Behavior

    by Fred S. Keller, William N. Schoenfeld ...
    Series series B. F. Skinner Reprint Series, edited by Julie S. Vargas
    Keller and Shoenfeld’s Principles of Psychology, published in 1950, was written as an introductory text to be used in the two-semester Psychology 1-2 course at Columbia University. It is a systematic approach in that a small number of functional relations described in B. F. Skinner’s The Behavior of Organisms are introduced and then used throughout to interpret the topics presented in a typical ... Read more

    $4.49 USD

  • The Technology of Teaching

    by B. F. Skinner ...
    Series series B. F. Skinner Foundation Reprint Series
    On Parent's Day, in 1952, B. F. Skinner visited his daughter's fourth grade math class. As he watched the lesson, he became increasingly uncomfortable. Almost every principle of effective teaching that he had studied for more than 20 years was being violated in that classroom. Yet it was a typical class. The teacher showed how to solve the day's problems, then gave the students a worksheet to do. ... Read more

    $8.49 USD

  • Humanizing Madness

    Psychiatry and the Cognitive Neurosciences

    by Niall McLaren ...
    An application of the philosophy of science to psychiatryAlthough it's been 140 years since Maudley's groundbreaking treatise, modern psychiatry is in a state of intellectual collapse. No psychiatrist practicing today can point to a universally agreed model of mental disorder which explains the common observations of mental disorder, dictates a research program and ordains a form of management ... Read more

    $9.95 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Contingencies of Reinforcement

    A Theoretical Analysis

    by B. F. Skinner ...
    Series series B. F. Skinner Reprint Series; Edited by Julie S. Vargas
    B. F. Skinner titled this book, Contingencies of Reinforcement, after the heart of his science of behavior. Contingencies relate classes of actions to postcedent events and to the contexts in which those action-postcedent relations occur. The basic processes seem straightforward, but many people do not know or understand the underlying theory. Skinner believed that ‘a theory is essential to the ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Perception

    Theory, Development and Organisation

    by Paul Rookes, Jane Willson ...
    Series series Routledge Modular Psychology
    Paul Rookes and Jane Willson explain perception and perceptual processes in a way that almost anyone can understand. The study of perception, or how the brain processes information from the senses , has fascinated psychologists and philosophers for a long time. Perception takes the key research areas and presents the arguments and findings in a clear, concise form, enabling the reader to have a ... Read more

    $54.99 USD