Cheney C.D. Behavior Analysis and Learning

3rd edition: LEA, 2009 — 528 p.This introduction to behavior analysis and learning focuses on basic research findings and illustrates behavior principles with everyday human examples. Key Topics: The full range of basic research on behavior analysis and learning is covered. Also included in a full chapter on applied behavior analysis, and numerous examples of basic behavior principles are applied to everyday human experience. This book contains optional Advanced Issues sections, where an in-depth understanding of the material requires concentrated study. There are sidebar Focus On sections that highlight contemporary research and issues in behavior analysis and learningForewordA 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