| Description |
xvi, 360 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm |
| Contents |
1. Just How Predictable Is Human Behavior? -- 2. Generativity Theory and Creativity -- 3. Bringing Cognition and Creativity into the Behavioral Laboratory -- 4. How to Get a Great Idea -- 5. Symbolic Communication Between Two Pigeons (Columbia livia domestica) -- 6. "Self-Awareness" in the Pigeon -- 7. The Spontaneous Use of Memoranda by Pigeons -- 8. The Spontaneous Use of a Tool by a Pigeon -- 9. "Insight" in the Pigeon: Antecedents and Determinants of an Intelligent Performance -- 10. The Spontaneous Interconnection of Three Repertoires -- 11. The Spontaneous Interconnections of Four Repertoires -- 12. Simulation Research in the Analysis of Behavior -- 13. Resurgence of Responding after the Cessation of Response-Independent Reinforcement -- 14. Resurgence of Previously Reinforced Behavior During Extinction -- 15. Extinction-Induced Resurgence: Preliminary Investigations and Possible Applications -- 16. Spontaneous and Deferred Imitation in the Pigeon |
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17. An Effect of Immediate Reinforcement and Delayed Punishment, with Possible Implications for Self-Control -- 18. The Case for Praxics -- 19. Why the Devotion to Behaviorism? -- 20. Final Comments on Praxics -- 21. Our Most Unforgetabble Character -- 22. Behaviorist at Fifty -- 23. Skinner, Creativity, and the Problem of Spontaneous Behavior -- 24. In the Yellow Wood -- 25. The Myth of Categorization -- 26. The Principle of Parsimony and Some Applications in Psychology -- 27. The Positive Side Effects of Reinforcement -- 28. Should You Punish Your Child? -- 29. The Quest for the Thinking Computer -- 30. The Self-Concept and Other Daemons -- 31. Growing Older, or What Else I Learned in Graduate School -- 32. Another Breakthrough in Data Interpretation at Harvard -- 33. Why the Cognitivists Hate the Behaviorists: The Pecker-Envy Hypothesis -- 34. A Day of Peace on Earth |
| Analysis |
Behaviour |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages [315]-343) and index |
| Subject |
Skinner, B. F. (Burrhus Frederic), 1904-1990.
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Cognition.
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Pigeons -- Behavior.
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Behaviorism (Psychology)
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Creative ability.
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| LC no. |
95030657 |
| ISBN |
0275944522 alkaline paper |
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