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Rule-Governed Behavior

Cognition, Contingencies, and Instructional Control

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  • © 1989

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Editors:
  1. Steven C. Hayes

    1. University of Nevada, Reno, USA

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Table of contents (10 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xix
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  2. The Nature and Place of Behavioral Analyses of Rule-Governed Behavior

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
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    2. Rules and Rule-Governance

      • Hayne W. Reese
      Pages 3-84

    3. The Behavior of the Listener

      • B. F. Skinner
      Pages 85-96

    4. Rule-Governed Behavior in Behavior Analysis

      • Margaret Vaughan
      Pages 97-118

    5. An Experimental Analysis of Rule-Governed Behavior

      • A. Charles Catania, Eliot Shimoff, Byron A. Matthews
      Pages 119-150

  3. The New Directions in the Analysis of Rule-Governed Behavior

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 151-151
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    2. The Verbal Action of the Listener as a Basis for Rule-Governance

      • Steven C. Hayes, Linda J. Hayes
      Pages 153-190

    3. Rule-Following

      • Steven C. Hayes, Robert D. Zettle, Irwin Rosenfarb
      Pages 191-220

    4. Correlated Hypothesizing and the Distinction between Contingency-Shaped and Rule-Governed Behavior

      • Philip N. Hineline, Barbara A. Wanchisen
      Pages 221-268

    5. The Achievement of Evasive Goals

      • Richard W. Malott
      Pages 269-322

  4. Applied Implications of Rule-Governance

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 323-323
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    2. Some Clinical Implications of Rule-Governed Behavior

      • Roger L. Poppen
      Pages 325-357

    3. Avoiding and Altering Rule-Control as a Strategy of Clinical Intervention

      • Steven C. Hayes, Barbara S. Kohlenberg, Susan M. Melancon
      Pages 359-385

  5. Back Matter

    Pages 387-391
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About this book

Animal learning and human learning traditions have been distinguishable within psychology since the start of the discipline and are to this day. The human learning wing was interested in the development of psychological functions in human organisms and proceeded directly to their examination. The animal learning wing was not distinguished by a corresponding interest in animal behavior per se. Rather, the animal learners studied animal behavior in order to identify principles of behavior of relevance to humans as well as other organisms. The two traditions, in other words, did not differ so much on goals as on strategies. It is not by accident that so many techniques of modem applied psychol­ ogy have emerged from the animal laboratory. That was one of the ultimate purposes of this work from the very beginning. The envisioned extension to humans was not just technological, however. Many animal researchers, B. F. Skinner most prominently among them, recognized that direct basic research with humans might ultimately be needed in certain areas but that it was wise first to build a strong foundation in the controlled environment of the animal laboratory. In a sense, animal learning was always in part a human research program in development.

Editors and Affiliations

  • University of Nevada, Reno, USA

    Steven C. Hayes

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Rule-Governed Behavior

  • Book Subtitle: Cognition, Contingencies, and Instructional Control

  • Editors: Steven C. Hayes

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4757-0447-1

  • Publisher: Springer New York, NY

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Plenum Press, New York 1989

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4757-0449-5Published: 02 June 2012

  • eBook ISBN: 978-1-4757-0447-1Published: 06 December 2012

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: 412

  • Number of Illustrations: 13 b/w illustrations

  • Topics: Clinical Psychology

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