Control : A History of Behavioral Psychology

by Mills, John A.

• ISBN13: 9780814756126
• ISBN10: 0814756123
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2000-08-01
• Publisher: New York University Press

Summary

Control provides the most comprehensive history of behaviorism yet written. John A. 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. Book jacket.

Author Biography

John A. Mills is Professor Emeritus of Psychology at the University of Saskatchewan

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	p. xi
Introduction: Shaping a Profession: Behaviorism in American Psychology	p. 1
The Birth of Psychological Behaviorism	p. 23
From Apogee to Perigee: Radical Behaviorism Appears but Fails to Take Root	p. 55
The Conceptual Basis of Neobehaviorism and Behavioral Science	p. 83
The Behaviorist as Research Manager: Clark L. Hull and the Writing of Principles of Behavior	p. 103
The Behaviorist as Philosopher: B. F. Skinner	p. 123
Behaviorists as Social Engineers: Behavior Modification Applied to Abnormal Psychology	p. 152
Faithful unto This Last: The Neobehaviorist Hegemony	p. 179
Notes	p. 195
Index	p. 239
About the Author	p. 246
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