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SCIENCE AND HUMAN BEHAVIOR: A TUTORIAL IN BEHAVIOR ANALYSIS
Author(s) -
Michael Jack
Publication year - 2003
Publication title -
journal of the experimental analysis of behavior
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.75
H-Index - 61
eISSN - 1938-3711
pISSN - 0022-5002
DOI - 10.1901/jeab.2003.80-321
Subject(s) - applied behavior analysis , behavioral analysis , animal behavior , behavioural sciences , psychology , behavioral pattern , cognitive science , computer science , developmental psychology , zoology , software engineering , autism , psychotherapist , biology
B. F. Skinner's Science and Human Behavior (1953) became the main source of my understanding of behavior during my first semester as a college professor in 1955 at Kansas University. It has continued to exert a major influence throughout my career as the basis for a completely deterministic science of behavior, as a handbook to be consulted as a first step in dealing with any issue in behavior analysis, and as a tutorial in behavioral interpretive analysis—in the use of a small number of behavioral concepts and principles to understand behavior of all degrees of complexity. I describe four general interpretive orientations or maxims that are of broad significance for behavior analysis, and also two underappreciated major theoretical contributions.