Author : Lauren Slater
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 294 pages
File Size : 24,8 MB
Release : 2004
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9780393050950
Traces developments in human psychology over the course of the twentieth century, beginning with B. F. Skinner and the legend of the child raised in a box.
Author : Carole Johnstone
Publisher : Tor Books
Page : 43 pages
File Size : 21,89 MB
Release : 2019-06-05
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1250234379
"Skinner Box," a Tor.com Original short story from award-winning author Carole Johnston. A disturbing science fiction story about space exploration and a seemingly routine scientific mission to Jupiter that is threatened by the interpersonal relationships of its crew. Content warning for fictional depictions of sexual content, including abuse and assault. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.
Author : Alexandra Rutherford
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 395 pages
File Size : 29,64 MB
Release : 2009-05-09
Category : Medical
ISBN : 1442692502
B.F. Skinner (1904-1990) is one of the most famous and influential figures in twentieth century psychology. A best-selling author, inventor, and social commentator, Skinner was both a renowned scientist and a public intellectual known for his controversial theories of human behavior. Beyond the Box is the first full-length study of the ways in which Skinner's ideas left the laboratory to become part of the post-war public's everyday lives, and chronicles both the enthusiasm and caution with which this process was received. Using selected case studies, Alexandra Rutherford provides a fascinating account of Skinner and his acolytes' attempts to weave their technology of human behavior into the politically turbulent fabric of 1950s-70s American life. To detail their innovative methods, Rutherford uses extensive archival materials and interviews to study the Skinnerians' creation of human behavior laboratories, management programs for juvenile delinquents, psychiatric wards, and prisons, as well as their influence on the self-help industry with popular books on how to quit smoking, lose weight, and be more assertive. A remarkable look at a post-war scientific and technological revolution, Beyond the Box is a rewarding study of how behavioral theories met real-life problems, and the ways in which Skinner and his followers continue to influence the present.
Author : Lauren Slater
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 46,5 MB
Release : 2005-02-17
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 0393347478
Through ten examples of ingenious experiments by some of psychology's most innovative thinkers, Lauren Slater traces the evolution of the century's most pressing concerns—free will, authoritarianism, conformity, and morality. Beginning with B. F. Skinner and the legend of a child raised in a box, Slater takes us from a deep empathy with Stanley Milgram's obedience subjects to a funny and disturbing re-creation of an experiment questioning the validity of psychiatric diagnosis. Previously described only in academic journals and textbooks, these often daring experiments have never before been narrated as stories, chock-full of plot, wit, personality, and theme.
Author : Marc Richelle
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 48,95 MB
Release : 1993
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9780863773914
B.F. Skinner has been praised as one of the most influential psychologists of the 20th century, but was also attacked by a variety of opponents within and outside the field of psychology.
Author : Charlie Huston
Publisher : Mulholland Books
Page : 385 pages
File Size : 12,66 MB
Release : 2013-07-09
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 031620241X
Skinner founded his career in "asset protection" on fear. To touch anyone under his protection was to invite destruction. A savagely effective methodology, until Skinner's CIA handlers began to fear him as much as his enemies did and banished him to the hinterlands of the intelligence community. Now, an ornate and evolving cyber-terrorist attack is about to end that long exile. His asset is Jae, a roboticist with a gift for seeing the underlying systems violently shaping a new era of global guerrilla warfare. At the root of it all is a young boy, the innocent seed of a plot grown in the slums of Mumbai. Brought to flower, that plot will tip the balance of world power in a perilous new direction. A combination of Le Carre spycraft with Stephenson techno-philosophy from the novelist hailed by the Washington Post as "the voice of twenty-first century crime fiction," Skinner is Charlie Huston's masterpiece -- a new kind of thriller for a new kind of world.
Author : Burrhus Frederic Skinner
Publisher : New York : Appleton-Century-Crofts
Page : 478 pages
File Size : 14,10 MB
Release : 1957
Category : Language and languages
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Author : John Danaher
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 36,80 MB
Release : 2019-09-24
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0674984242
Automating technologies threaten to usher in a workless future. But this can be a good thing—if we play our cards right. Human obsolescence is imminent. The factories of the future will be dark, staffed by armies of tireless robots. The hospitals of the future will have fewer doctors, depending instead on cloud-based AI to diagnose patients and recommend treatments. The homes of the future will anticipate our wants and needs and provide all the entertainment, food, and distraction we could ever desire. To many, this is a depressing prognosis, an image of civilization replaced by its machines. But what if an automated future is something to be welcomed rather than feared? Work is a source of misery and oppression for most people, so shouldn’t we do what we can to hasten its demise? Automation and Utopia makes the case for a world in which, free from need or want, we can spend our time inventing and playing games and exploring virtual realities that are more deeply engaging and absorbing than any we have experienced before, allowing us to achieve idealized forms of human flourishing. The idea that we should “give up” and retreat to the virtual may seem shocking, even distasteful. But John Danaher urges us to embrace the possibilities of this new existence. The rise of automating technologies presents a utopian moment for humankind, providing both the motive and the means to build a better future.
Author : Don H. Hockenbury
Publisher : Macmillan
Page : 844 pages
File Size : 31,45 MB
Release : 2002-07-19
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9780716751298
New edition of the Hockenburys' text, which draws on their extensive teaching and writing experiences to speak directly to students who are new to psychology.
Author : B. F. Skinner
Publisher : B. F. Skinner Foundation
Page : 794 pages
File Size : 33,77 MB
Release : 2015-05-20
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 0989983951
The contingent relationship between actions and their consequences lies at the heart of Skinner’s experimental analysis of behavior. Particular patterns of behavior emerge depending upon the contingencies established. Ferster and Skinner examined the effects of different schedules of reinforcement on behavior. An extraordinary work, Schedules of Reinforcement represents over 70,000 hours of research primarily with pigeons, though the principles have now been experimentally verified with many species including human beings. At first glance, the book appears to be an atlas of schedules. And so it is, the most exhaustive in existence. But it is also a reminder of the power of describing and explaining behavior through an analysis of measurable and manipulative behavior-environment relations without appealing to physiological mechanisms in the brain. As en exemplar and source for the further study of behavioral phenomena, the book illustrates the scientific philosophy that Skinner and Ferster adopted: that a science is best built from the ground up, from a firm foundation of facts that can eventually be summarized as scientific laws.
