

Science and Human Behavior
Author: B.F. Skinner
Narrator: Chris Sorensen
Unabridged: 19 hr 28 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Tantor Media
Published: 10/16/2018
Categories: Nonfiction, Psychology, Psychotherapy
Author: B.F. Skinner
Narrator: Chris Sorensen
Unabridged: 19 hr 28 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Tantor Media
Published: 10/16/2018
Categories: Nonfiction, Psychology, Psychotherapy
Burrhus Frederic Skinner, commonly known as B. F. Skinner, was an American psychologist, behaviorist, author, inventor, and social philosopher.
OMG!!! So I finally finished this thing. It’s an amazingly brilliant book by an absolute genius visionary hero of science. And..... It was a GHASTLY experience of a read. Not all together unpleasant. But a real feat of endurance to complete. Behaviorism has various levels of language (Bx-Speak). Upper lev......more
Reading this book for school, but it's a topic that would interest me anyway. Some of Skinner's assertions are hard to swallow (goodbye free-will!), but examining and explaining behavior from a strictly scientific perspective makes so much sense.......more
Reinforcements do shape behavior... But not enough to explain away human thought, music, and art. Ignore the dogmatic extensions of the theory and one will find a wealth of potential.......more
That ending hit hard. What a great way to close out the book! Superb.......more
Being a student of psychology I found very difficult to find some modern literature on behaviorism. Behaviorism has in fact almost disappeared from mainstream psychology which now bubbles with cognitive neuroscience and so on. Being quite difficult to retrieve some basic theory text on behaviorism I......more