Handbook of Research Methods in Human Operant Behavior

Kennon A. Lattal, Michael Perone (Herausgeber)

Buch | Hardcover

669 Seiten

1998 | 1998 ed.
Plenum Publishing Co.,N.Y. (Verlag)
9780306456688 (ISBN)

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A host of special methodological issues arise in any discussion of research on human behavior. The text evaluates specific strategies and techniques used in laboratory settings, including - reinforcement and punishment - stimulus control - behavioral pharmacology - and methodologies concerning verbal and social behavior, among others.

A host of special methodological issues arise in any discussion of research on human behavior. This practical new volume addresses many of those questions with 19 superb contributions from leading experts in the field. The text evaluates specific strategies and techniques used in laboratory settings, including - reinforcement and punishment - stimulus control - behavioral pharmacology - and methodologies concerning verbal and social behavior, among others. The book includes 135 illustrations and a notable Appendix that offers the APA's ethical guidelines for research with human subjects.

I: Basic Considerations.- 1: The Experimental Analysis of Human Operant Behavior.- 2: The Human Subject.- 3: Experimental Design and Analysis in the Laboratory Study of Human Operant Behavior.- II: Reinforcement and Punishment.- 4: Reinforcement: Schedule Performance.- 5: Choice and Self-Control.- 6: Negative Reinforcement and Punishment.- III: Stimulus Control.- 7: Stimulus-Control Procedures.- 8: Stimulus Equivalence.- 9: Remembering and Forgetting.- 10: Psychophysics: Methods and Analyses of Signal Detection.- IV: Verbal and Social Behavior.- 11: Behavioral Processes of Infants and Young Children.- 12: The Verbal Governance of Behavior.- 13: The Taxonomy of Verbal Behavior.- 14: Self-Report Methods.- 15: Social Behavior.- V: New Directions.- 16: Establishment of a Laboratory for Continuous Observation of Human Behavior.- 17: Laboratory Methods in Human Behavioral Ecology.- 18: Human Behavioral Pharmacology: An Overview of Laboratory Methods.- 19: Self-Experimentation.- Appendix: Ethical Guidelines in Research with Humans.

Reihe/Serie	NATO Science Series: B
Zusatzinfo	XIII, 669 p.
Sprache	englisch
Maße	178 x 254 mm
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie ► Allgemeine Psychologie
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie ► Klinische Psychologie
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie ► Pädagogische Psychologie
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie ► Verhaltenstherapie
	Medizin / Pharmazie ► Medizinische Fachgebiete ► Psychiatrie / Psychotherapie
	Medizin / Pharmazie ► Studium
ISBN-13	9780306456688 / 9780306456688
Zustand	Neuware