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Author Mills, John A

Title Control : a history of behavioral psychology / John A. Mills
Published New York : New York University Press, ©1998

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Description 1 online resource (xii, 246 pages)
Series Book collections on Project MUSE
Contents Introduction: shaping a profession: behaviorism in American psychology -- The birth of psychological behaviorism -- From apogee to perigee: radical behaviorism appears but fails to take root -- The conceptual basis of neobehaviorism and behavioral science -- The behaviorist as research manager: Clark L. Hull and the writing of principles of behavior -- The behaviorist as philosopher: B.F. Skinner -- Behaviorists as social engineers: behavior modification applied to abnormal psychology -- Faithful unto this last: the neobehaviorist hegemony
Summary Behaviorism was the dominant force in the creation of modern American psychology, and it continues to undergird the field to this day. Even so, a full understanding of the complexity of behaviorism has remained elusive. Its dominance within American psychology has, paradoxically, blocked our efforts to understand its role and its nature. Control serves as an antidote to this historical myopia, providing the most comprehensive history of behaviorism yet written. Mills successfully balances the investigation of individual theorists and their contributions with analyses of the structures of assumption that underlie all behaviorist psychology, and of behaviorism's role as both creator and creature of larger American intellectual patterns, practices, and values
Analysis Multi-User
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 195-238) and index
Notes English
Print version record
Subject Behaviorism (Psychology) -- History
Behaviorism -- history
PSYCHOLOGY -- Movements -- Behaviorism.
Behaviorism (Psychology)
Behaviorisme.
Behaviorismus
Geschichte 1900-1960.
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
LC no. 98019699
ISBN 0585424802
9780585424804
0814756115
9780814756119
9780814759967
0814759963
9780814761243
0814761240