Introduction to Behavior

An up-to-date approach to behaviour analysis within the framework of evolutionary theory

Introduction to Behavior is a contemporary textbook for students in behaviour analysis and other behaviourally-oriented disciplines. Dispensing with outdated models of behaviour and reinforcement, this book adopts a new conceptual framework for the understanding of behaviour, human and nonhuman.

It will help students at all levels, particularly students being trained in applied behaviour analysis, offering an easily approachable and plausible framework that can inform both research and practice. Excellent for undergraduate and graduate students alike, as well as others interested in the field of behaviour science, this book covers standard topics in behaviour analysis from an up-to-date perspective. Readers will be introduced to a far more effective way of viewing behaviour than the traditional reinforcement-based approach.

• Examine traditional concepts of behaviour analysis from an evolutionary perspective
• Gain a concrete conceptual framework that can be used to guide research and practice in applied behavioural science
• Understand human and nonhuman behaviours, both in laboratory settings and in daily life, from an individual and a social perspective
• Build your knowledge of why people make the choices they make given particular environmental inputs

Introduction to Behavior fills an important gap in available texts on behaviour analysis, placing helpful behavioural concepts within a sound, evidence-based evolutionary framework.