Bücher von Alan Poling

The first is a willingness to accept an analysis of drug effects that shares little with folklore or common sense no tions of drug action. Unless one is aware of these factors and how they determine a drug's actions, the behavioral effects of drugs can be neither pre dicted nor meaningfully explained.

We humans are faced with an interesting problem: That which we think we un derstand the most-our own behavior-we probably understand the least. the planet is beset by a host of problems that are. although it seems that the greatest impact of our behavior is on the planet and its other inhabitants.

An important feature of the approach to the study of behavior that he championed, behavior analysis, is the intensive study of individual subjects over time. Introductory-level books devoted entirely to methods of applied behavior analysis (e.g., Kazdin, 1982;

Psychology: A Behavioral Overview is an introductory text with an orienting per spective that is frankly behavioral rather than eclectic.

We humans are faced with an interesting problem: That which we think we un derstand the most-our own behavior-we probably understand the least. the planet is beset by a host of problems that are. although it seems that the greatest impact of our behavior is on the planet and its other inhabitants.

An important feature of the approach to the study of behavior that he championed, behavior analysis, is the intensive study of individual subjects over time. Introductory-level books devoted entirely to methods of applied behavior analysis (e.g., Kazdin, 1982;