Rule-Governed Behavior: Cognition, Contingencies, and Instructional Control - Softcover

Hayes, Steven C.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1878978489 ISBN 13: 9781878978486

Publisher: New Harbinger, 2010

Synopsis

Behavior analytic research on rule-governed behavior was first gathered in this book in 1989. Shortly after that time, the area slowed, perhaps in part due to the difficulties in distinguishing verbal from non-verbal processes within behavior analysis. Recently, however, there has been a notable pick up in interest in the topic. This previously out of print volume has been reprinted by Context Press in order to provide a readily accessible resource to behavioral psychologists as they move ahead in their research and practical work. Still current in many ways, the volume includes:

B. F. Skinner on the behavior of the listener

Hayne W. Reese on cognitive and behavioristic views of rule-governed behavior

Margaret Vaughan on the history of the concept of rule-governed behavior in behavior analysis

Charles Catania, Eliot Shimoff, and Byron A. Matthews on the experimental analysis of rule-governed behavior

Steven C. Hayes and Linda J. Hayes on the verbal action of the listener as a basis of rule-governance

Steven C. Hayes, Robert D. Zettle, and Irwin Rosenfarb on functional units of rule-following

Philip N. Hineline and Barbara A. Wanchisen on the distinction between contingency-shaped and rule-governed behavior

Richard W. Malott on control by rules describing contingencies that are not direct acting

Roger L. Poppen on some clinical implications of rule-governed behavior

Steven C. Hayes, Barbara S. Kohlenberg, and Susan M. Melancon on avoiding and altering rule-control as a strategy of clinical intervention

About this title

About the Author:

Steven C. Hayes, PhD, is Nevada Foundation Professor and director of clinical training in the department of psychology at the University of Nevada. An author of forty-one books and nearly 600 scientific articles, his career has focused on analysis of the nature of human language and cognition, and its application to the understanding and alleviation of human suffering and promotion of human prosperity. Among other associations, Hayes has been president of the Association for Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies, and the Association for Contextual Behavioral Science. His work has received several awards, including the Impact of Science on Application Award from the Society for the Advancement of Behavior Analysis, and the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Association for Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies.

About this edition

• Publisher: New Harbinger
• Publication date: 2010
• ISBN 10: 1878978489
• ISBN 13: 9781878978486
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 391