Behavior Organisms Experimental Analysis Century by Skinner B F (3 results)

Soft cover. Condition: Good. Minor edge and corner wear; lightly scuffed and scratched; spine is creased; some shelf wear; former owner's name is stamped on the inner front cover and ffep with a signature in ink on the ffep as well; ex-library with the usual library markings; overall a nice used copy! Brown and black wrapper with white lettering. 457 historical and informative pages! "Two other theoretico-experimental analyses of behavior compose the historical setting in which this book should be evaluated. Tolman's Purposive Behavior in Animals and Men preceded The Behavior of Organisms by six years; Hull's Principles of Behavior followed it by five. The three books differed in many ways: they undertook to solve different problems, and they sought solutions in different places. My debt to Sherrington, Magnus, and Pavlov is obvious in my continuing use of the word 'reflex.' I held to the term even after I had begun to distinguish between emitted and elicited behavior - between 'respondents' and 'operants' - for I wanted to preserve the notion of reflex strength." ---- from the Preface to the Seventh Printing.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Reprint. Signed and briefly inscribed by Skinner upon title page. x, 457 pp. "Here Skinner defines his basic unit of behavior, the operant, proposes rate as the basic datum, and describes his research program to identify the variables of which behavior is a function." - B.F. Skinner Foundation. In 2002 a study in the Review of General Psychology declared Skinner the most eminent psychologist of the twentieth century. This copy appears to be a 1970s facsimile reprint of the author's landmark first book first published in 1938. Black boards adorned with brilliant gilt and maroon. Clean, bright, tight and unmarked with very light wear. An excellent example. ISBN 0130732133.; 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall; B.F. Skinner Psychology Behavior Signed EAB Experimental analysis of Behavior Operant; Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Good. First Edition. In this, Skinner's first book, he "launched a new science based on selection by consequences as the mechanism through which behavior changes during the lifetime of the individual. The book summarizes nearly ten years of research, spanning the years of Skinner's graduate school days at Harvard through his three years as a member of the Society of Fellows. Here he defines his basic unit of behavior, the operant, proposes rate as the basic datum, and describes his research program-to identify the variables of which behavior is a function." - B.F. Skinner Foundation. ix, [1], 457 pages. References. Index. Name of Arthur Gladstone stamped atop front free endpaper is presumably that of the Swarthmore College professor who edited the 'Bulletin of the Research Exchange on the Prevention of War' in the 1950s. Ink marginal lines and/or marginalia on approximately 23 pages appear recent. Dust jacket not included. Moderate wear to original black cloth. Bright gilt lettering upon backstrip. Binding tight.; 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall; The Behavior of Organisms - An Experimental Analysis: The Century Psychology Series Skinner B.F. Behavioral Theory Reflex Operant Conditioning EAB Experimental Analysis of Behavior.