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Control: A History of Behavioral Psychology

By John Mills

Book information

Publisher
NYU Press
Year
1998
ISBN
9780814756119, 0814756115
LCC
BF199 .M485 1998
Open Library ID
OL22127897M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
1 MB (1052192 bytes)
Pages
259\259
Topic
History
Time added
2010-10-23 03:34:24

Description

Behaviorism was the dominant force in the creation of modern American psychology, and it continues to undergird the field to this day. Even so, a full understanding of the complexity of behaviorism has remained elusive. Its dominance within American psychology has, paradoxically, blocked our efforts to understand its role and its nature. Control serves as an antidote to this historical myopia, providing the most comprehensive history of behaviorism yet written. 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.

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