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               Radical Behaviorism for ABA Practitioners
                                  
James M. Johnston

                                   Table of Contents

Preface

1. An Unavoidable (But Reasonable) Assumption
     Free or Determined
     Consequences for Practitioners

2. It's Just Verbal Behavior
     Some Questions About Verbal Behavior
     Organization of Verbal Behavior
     Given That Verbal Behavior is Learned

3. Nevermind
     Cause and Effect
     Is Making Up Your Mind Like Making Up Your Bed?
     What Is Really Inside
     What To Do About Mentalism

4. Seeing Yourself
     Learning to Talk About Ourselves
     The Behavior of Sensing
     Managing Our Behavior    

5. The Misdirection of Everyday Dialect
      Knowledge and Understanding
     Purpose, Intention, and Goals
     Problem Solving
     Rules, Advice and Suggestions

6. Is There Something Special About Reasoning?
     What Is Reasoning?

7. Behavioral Responsibility
     Creativity
     Credit Where Credit Is Due?
     Are We Then Blameless?
     It Comes Down To Responsibility
     Conscience

8. Ethics, Rights, and Values--Without the Heat
     Ethics and Ethical Communities
     Rights
     Values
     Taking the Heat Our of Arguments

9. A Social Life
     Culture
     Natural Selection
     Where Can This Lead?

10. Radical Behaviorism
     Radical Behaviorism

Glossary
Bibliography
Author Index

Subject Index