I've listed some readings that are relevent to the course.
They're roughly in the order of the topics in the text.
The best general reference on the science of Behavior Analysis is:Learning, Interim (4th) Edition (2006) (Paperback)
by A. Charles Catania
Sloan Publishing.
It is currently available from Amazon, or directly from the Cambridge Center for Behavioral Studies
<http://www.behavior.org/behavior/sloan_series.cfm#Learning>.Classics in the History of Psychology
This is a good source for many of the early Behaviorists; up to and including early Skinner.A Historical and Contemporary Look at Psychological Systems (Paperback)
by Joseph J. Pear
Paperback: 448 pages
Publisher: Lawrence Erlbaum; 1 edition (February 2, 2007)
ISBN-10: 0805850791
ISBN-13: 978-080585079I've just started reading this; from what I know of Joe Pear it should be good!Two good texts on behavioral theory and systems are:
Moore, Jay
Conceptual Foundations of Radical Behaviorism
@007, CCSB <http://www.behavior.org/behavior/sloan_series.cfm#Conceptual>The classic in the field is:
Behavior Theory and Philosophy (Hardcover)
by Kennon A. Lattal (Editor), Philip N. Chase (Editor)
Hardcover: 422 pages
Publisher: Springer; 1 edition (December 31, 2003)
ISBN-10: 0306477807
ISBN-13: 978-0306477805Tactics of Scientific Research (Hardcover)
by Murray Sidman
Books by William Uttal, who for most of his career was a leading cognitive psychologist:
Towards a New Behaviorism (1998) LEA
The War Between Mentalism and Behaviorism (2000) LEA
The New Phrenology (2001) MIT Press Howard Rachlin. Behavior and Mind, Oxford University Press, 1994.
Also recent (2004) TBA article.
For a behavioral approach to memory/remembering, see
David Palmer -- in Hayes and Chase, Dialogs on Verbal Behavior, 1991
Remembering can be described as repeating at some later time a self report of an event.Howard Rachlin. Behavior and Mind, Oxford University Press, 1994.
The best statement of Molar Behaviorism.
MacCorquodale, K., & Meehl, P. E. (1948). On a distinction between hypothetical constructs and intervening variables. Psychological Review, 55, 95-107.
In Classics in the History of Psychology
Stephen J Gould's Wonderful Life for the contingent view of evolution.
or any of his collections of essays from Natural History magazine.
Jared Diamond:
On the nonuniueness of human beings, and some interesting speculations on the evolution of culture.The Third Chimpanzee.
Guns, Germs and Steel
CollapseRichard Dawkins may be the best of the current popular writers on evolution,and is extremely readable.
Location --Best Sellers Area QH361 .D39 2004
Author Dawkins, Richard, 1941-
Title The ancestor's tale : a pilgrimage to the dawn of evolution
/ Richard Dawkins ; with additional research by Yan Wong.
Publisher Boston : Houghton Mifflin, 2004.
Location: 2ND/3RD Floors QH375 .D376 1996
Author: Dawkins, Richard, 1941-
Title: Climbing mount improbable
Edition: 1st American ed.
Publisher: New York : W.W. Norton, 1996.
Location: 2ND/3RD Floors QH430 .D39 1995
Author: Dawkins, Richard, 1941-
Title: River out of eden : a Darwinian view of life
Publisher: New York, NY : Basic Books, c1995.
Location: 2ND/3RD Floors QH437 .D38 1989
Author: Dawkins, Richard, 1941-
Title: The selfish gene Edition: New ed.
Publisher: Oxford ; New York: Oxford University Press, 1989.
Location: 2ND/3RD Floors QH307.2 .M39 1997
Author: Mayr, Ernst, 1904-
Title: This is biology : the science of the living world / Ernst Mayr.
Publisher: Cambridge, Mass. : Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1997.
• The grand old man of evolutionary biology.
Moore, David S.
The dependent gene : the fallacy of nature/nurture
The Developmental Systems approach; a good antidote to Evolutionary Psychology.
Some articles by B. F. Skinner on evolution.
The Science articles should be available through the MSU library; the JEAB articles will be available online (hopefully) soon.The phylogeny and ontogeny of behavior. Science, 1966, 153, 1205-13.
Selection by consequences. Science, 1981, 213, 501-504.
The evolution of behavior. Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior, 1984, 41, 217-21.
The evolution of verbal behavior. Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior, 1986, 45, 115-22.
Variability and creativity:
Allen Neuringer's work on variability , novelty and creativity.
Neuringer, Allen (2004) Reinforced Variability in Animals and People: Implications for Adaptive Action, American Psychologist, 59(9), 891-906.
is available in the D2L Content section.Cameron, J., Banko, K., and Pierce, W. D., (2000) Pervasive Negative Effects of Rewards on Intrinsic Motivation: The Myth Continues, The Behavior Analyst, vol. 24 No. 1
also: Eisenberger and Shanock (2003)
Stimulus control
For a more detailed discussion of matching to sample and equivalence class formation see Sidman, M., & Tailby, W. (1982). Conditional discrimination vs. matching to sample: An expansion of the testing paradigm. Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior, 37, 5-22.Available online at http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/tocrender.fcgi?journal=299&action=archive
Verbal Behavior
MSU,M Memorial Library --ERC Videocassette Collection--Lower Level
Call #: BF311 .C6 1982 Library Info
Cognition, creativity, and behavior, the Columban simulations
videorecording / Research Press Company
Summary
Documents experiments carried out by B.F. Skinner and Robert Epstein in which pigeons exhibit behaviors heretofore attributed by psychologists only to man and the higher apes, such as symbolic communication, self-awareness, and insight. The classic Jack and Jill demonstration.
Some videos on Verbal Behavior:
MSU,M Memorial Library --ERC Videocassette Collection--Lower Level Call #: BF455 .M67 2002
Motivation and early language training [videorecording] : a tutorial / Association for Behavior Analysis.
Association for Behavior Analysis 28th annual convention, Toronto, Canada
Association for Behavior Analysis, 2002.
1 videocassette (ca. 68 min.) : sd., col. ; 1/2 in.
Performer Note Presented by Jack Michael.
Summary Tutorial 164-2002 presented at the ABA 28th Annual Convention, Toronto, Canada. Discusses the effects of establishing operations on verbal behavior.
MSU,M Memorial Library --ERC Videocassette Collection--Lower Level Call #: BF455 .W47 2002
What we do with words [videorecording] : a tutorial on verbal behavior / Association for Behavior Analysis.
Association for Behavior Analysis 28th annual convention, Toronto, Canada
Tutorial on verbal behavior
Association for Behavior Analysis, 2002.
1 videocassette (ca. 57 min.) : sd., col. ; 1/2 in.
Performer Note Presented by A. Charles Catania.
Summary Tutorial 111-2002 presented at the ABA 28th Annual Convention, Toronto, Canada. Summarizes some of the basic features of the analysis of verbal behavior.
MSU,M Memorial Library --ERC Videocassette Collection--Lower Level Call #: BF455 .T87 2003
Tutorial 2003 [videorecording] : the multiple control of verbal behavior / Association for Behavior Analysis.
Portion of Title Tutorial two thousand three
Multiple control of verbal behavior
Publisher [Kalamazoo, Mich.] : Association for Behavior Analysis, 2003.
1 videocassette (48 min.) : sd., col. ; 1/2 in.
Performer Note Presenter, Jack Michael.
Time and Place Note Recorded at the Association for Behavior Analysis (ABA) 29th annual convention, held May 23-27, 2003, in San Francisco, California.
Summary Tutorial presented at the Association for Behavior Analysis 29th Annual Convention, San Francisco, California. The presentation is based on chapters 6-11 of B.F. Skinner's book Verbal behavior.
MSU,M Memorial Library --ERC Videocassette Collection--Lower Level Call #: BF455 .W64 2003
Words and other kinds of behavior [videorecording] : another tutorial on verbal behavior / Association for Behavior Analysis.
Association for Behavior Analysis 29th Annual Convention, May 23-27, 2003
Publisher [Kalamazoo, Mich.] : Association for Behavior Analysis, 2003.
1 videocassette (55 min.) : sd., col. ; 1/2 in.
Performer Note Presenter, A. Charles Catania.
Summary This tutorial was presented at the Association for Behavioral Analysis (ABA) 29th Annual Convention. It is an extension of What we do with words, the tutorial in basic analysis of verbal behavior presented at the 2002 ABA Convention.
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Behavior Analysis and Culture
BEHAVIORAL ANALYSIS OF SOCIETIES AND CULTURAL PRACTICES
Edited by P. A. Lamal (1991)
University of North Carolina Charlotte, North Carolina
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Design of CulturesThe Origin and Evolution of Cultures (Evolution and Cognition Series) (Paperback)
by Robert Boyd, Peter J. Richerson
* Paperback: 464 pages
* Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA (January 20, 2005)
* Language: English
* ISBN: 019518145XOxford presents, in one convenient and coherently organized volume, 20 influential but until now relatively inaccessible articles that form the backbone of Boyd and Richerson's path-breaking work on evolution and culture. Their interdisciplinary research is based on two notions. First, that culture is crucial for understanding human behavior; unlike other organisms, socially transmitted beliefs, attitudes, and values heavily influence our behavior. Secondly, culture is part of biology: the capacity to acquire and transmit culture is a derived component of human psychology, and the contents of culture are deeply intertwined with our biology. Culture then is a pool of information, stored in the brains of the population that gets transmitted from one brain to another by social learning processes. Therefore, culture can account for both our outstanding ecological success as well as the maladaptations that characterize much of human behavior. The interest in this collection will span anthropology, psychology, economics, philosophy, and political science.
Humans are a striking anomaly in the natural world. While we are similar to other mammals in many ways, our behavior sets us apart. Our unparalleled ability to adapt has allowed us to occupy virtually every habitat on earth using an incredible variety of tools and subsistence techniques. Our societies are larger, more complex, and more cooperative than any other mammal's. In this stunning exploration of human adaptation, Peter J. Richerson and Robert Boyd argue that only a Darwinian theory of cultural evolution can explain these unique characteristics.Not By Genes Alone : How Culture Transformed Human Evolution (Hardcover)
by Peter J. Richerson, Robert Boyd
About the Author
Peter J. Richerson is professor of environmental science at the University of California, Davis. Robert Boyd is professor of anthropology at the University of California, Los Angeles. Prolific authors and editors, they coauthored Culture and the Evolutionary Process, published by the University of Chicago Press.Product Details
* Hardcover: 342 pages
* Publisher: University Of Chicago Press (December 31, 2004)
* Language: English
* ISBN: 0226712842Not by Genes Alone offers a radical interpretation of human evolution, arguing that our ecological dominance and our singular social systems stem from a psychology uniquely adapted to create complex culture. Richerson and Boyd illustrate here that culture is neither superorganic nor the handmaiden of the genes. Rather, it is essential to human adaptation, as much a part of human biology as bipedal locomotion. Drawing on work in the fields of anthropology, political science, sociology, and economics--and building their case with such fascinating examples as kayaks, corporations, clever knots, and yams that require twelve men to carry them--Richerson and Boyd convincingly demonstrate that culture and biology are inextricably linked, and they show us how to think about their interaction in a way that yields a richer understanding of human nature.
In abandoning the nature-versus-nurture debate as fundamentally misconceived, Not by Genes Alone is a truly original and groundbreaking theory of the role of culture in evolution and a book to be reckoned with for generations to come.Coercion and Its Fallout, Murray Sidman, Authors Cooperative (1989)