The following is, for the most part, an excerpt of a book chapter I'm working on for an APA book series: Psychologists have a long history of ignoring (e.g., Koch, 1964), not understanding (e.g., ...

My recent article, "Behavior Modification Is Everywhere: Why Education Can’t Afford to Pretend Otherwise," sparked thoughtful, even passionate, comments from readers. These responses highlighted ...

Behaviorism was born from research done by Ivan Pavlov in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Pavlov’s research into animal digestion led to the recognition that the animals that were being ...

Have you ever wondered exactly why people do what they do? According to a school of thought known as behaviorism, it all ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract New conceptions of what constitutes meaning for the organism have recently arisen within the behavioral tradition. These conceptions are a ...

Plenty of policies and programs limit our ability to do right by children. But perhaps the most restrictive virtual straitjacket that educators face is behaviorism—a psychological theory that would ...

Get the rat to the cheese. That's really what each U.S. political party is promising to do if its candidate is elected President. The rat in this analogy is the enervated American worker. The cheese ...

Professor Foxall suggests the radical behaviorist language of contingencies is fine as far as it goes, and is quite suitable for matters of prediction and control. However, he argues that radical ...