Bücher von Robert W. Proctor

Providing a critical evaluation of the assets and limitations of contextualism for doing research in psychology and education, the authors compare contextualism, modified contextualism and mechanism as approaches to doing science, as well as their merits in studying closed versus open systems.

Attempts to offer a balance between an overview of Attention and an emphasis on how theories and paradigms for the study of Attention have developed. This book highlights issues and findings while giving details of experimental studies, models, and theories. It includes chapter previews, chapter summaries, key words, a glossary, and tables.

Skinner, and prescribe a "world view" where environmental contingencies determine all aspects of behavior. This view necessarily assumes all other views to be inferior because of its world view, hence, those subscribing to behavior analysis will tolerate no other theory.