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Principles of Psychology
Keller and Shoenfeld’s Principles of Psychology, published in 1950, was written as an introductory text to be used in the two-semester Psychology 1-2 course at Columbia University. It is a systematic approach in that a small number of functional relations described in B. F. Skinner’s The Behavior of Organisms are introduced and then used throughout to interpret the topics presented in a typical introductory psychology course. K & S was widely influential in familiarizing psychologists and others with the nature and general relevance of Skinner’s approach. It is an outstanding example of clear and interesting technical writing, and its style and topic arrangement have been the basis for a number of subsequent texts. Although old by textbook standards, it is still one of the easiest ways to acquire an accurate repertoire in the science of behavior.
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The Amateur Hour
The first full-length history of college teaching in the United States from the nineteenth century to the present, this book sheds new light on the ongoing tension between the modern scholarly ideal—scientific, objective, and dispassionate—and the inevitably subjective nature of day-to-day instruction. American college teaching is in crisis, or so we are told. But we've heard that complaint for the past 150 years, as critics have denounced the poor quality of instruction in undergraduate classrooms. Students daydream in gigantic lecture halls while a professor drones on, or they meet with a teaching assistant for an hour of aimless discussion. The modern university does not reward teachi...
Control
Critiquing as well as chronicling the development of this dominant early force in modern US psychology, Mills (psychology, U. of Saskatchewan) demonstrates how a positivist view of human motivation hindered the ability of behaviorist pioneers like Watson, Hull, and Skinner to account for the "black box" variables that shape behavior. While radical behaviorism failed to take root, neobehaviorists left an important legacy to behavioral science and debates over social engineering. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
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