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Mobbs, Dean; Hall, Scott – Behavior Analyst, 2005
This article presents the argument by the authors regarding the article of Uttal (2004), which lays forth several, rightly justified, caveats in the pursuit of elucidating the neural basis of higher cognitive functions using functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI). Adding to the onslaught of criticism from cellular physiologists, Uttal's…
Descriptors: Behavioral Sciences, Brain, Neurology, Cognitive Processes
McGuigan, F. J., Ed.; Lumsden, D. Barry, Ed. – 1973
Chapters contained in this volume, each with a list of references appended, are: "Scientific Psychology in Transition" by Gregory A. Kimble; "Higher Mental Processes as the Bases for the Laws of Conditioning" by Eli Saltz; "Reification and Reality in Conditioning Paradigms: Implications of Results When Modes of Reinforcement are Changed" by David…
Descriptors: Behavioral Science Research, Behavioral Sciences, Cognitive Development, Cognitive Processes
Smelser, Neil J., Ed.; Gerstein, Dean R., Ed. – 1986
This commemorative book contains 10 papers that provide a selective sample of behavioral and social science research accomplishments and trends over a 50-year period, and comparisons are made with research presented in the 1933 report, "Recent Social Trends in the United States" (The Ogburn Report). Four chapters in part 1,…
Descriptors: Behavior, Behavioral Science Research, Behavioral Sciences, Cognitive Processes
Clark, Kenneth E., Ed.; Miller, George A., Ed. – 1970
This volume is part of the series prepared in connection with the Survey of the Behavioral and Social Sciences (BASS). This report is the result of the efforts of a panel of scholars in the field of psychology to give a general view of the state of psychological knowledge at the present. The first part of the work discusses the major sub-fields of…
Descriptors: Behavior, Behavioral Science Research, Behavioral Sciences, Child Psychology