Rule-Governed Behavior

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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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.

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