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Principles of Behavior Modification by Albert Bandura is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

What is Principles of Behavior Modification about?

his book presents basic psychological principles governinghuman behavior within the conceptual framework of sociallearning. Over the years an impressive body of knowledgeabout the mechanisms through which behavior is acquired andmodified has been accumulated. But despite this vigorousgrowth of research on human behavior, a number ofpsychological processes that are highly influential in humanfunctioning have been overlooked or only partially investigated.This volume reviews the recent theoretical and experimentaladvances in the field of social learning. It gives special emphasisto the important roles played by vicarious, symbolic, andself-regulatory processes, which receive relatively little noticeeven in most contemporary theories of behavior.The worth of a psychological theory must be judged not onlyby how well it explains laboratory findings but also by theefficacy of the behavioral modification procedures that itproduces. Recent years have witnessed widespread applicationsof methods derived from principles of social learning to themodification of important social phenomena in familial,educational, clinical, and other social settings. By requiring clearspecification of treatment

Who reads Principles of Behavior Modification?

Author

Albert Bandura

Publisher

International Psychotherapy Institute

Published

1969

Language

EN

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Psychology, Psychology Theory, History & Research, Social_sciences