People have been skiing-and no doubt teaching others to do the same-for thousands of years. The earliest evidence for it is a picture on the wall of a cave in Norway that was drawn sometime around 4500 BC.Skiing is something that we do. It is a behavior. Instructing others in skiing is also something that we do. It, too, is a behavior.Pavlov and his dog helped prove that behavior is lawful and orderly. Various forms of conditioning as well as reinforcement, generalization, discrimination, punishment, and extinction promote certain behaviors. But what prompts us to ski and to teach others? These behaviors can be accounted for, but no one has done it-until now.Develop a better understanding of what humanity gets out of skiing and become a better skier or ski instructor in the process. You'll gain a greater appreciation of the sport once you discover "It's About Skiing and Not the Skis."

People have been skiing-and no doubt teaching others to do the same-for thousands of years. The earliest evidence for it is a picture on the wall of a cave in Norway that was drawn sometime around 4500 BC.Skiing is something that we do. It is a behavior. Instructing others in skiing is also something that we do. It, too, is a behavior.Pavlov and his dog helped prove that behavior is lawful and orderly. Various forms of conditioning as well as reinforcement, generalization, discrimination, punishment, and extinction promote certain behaviors. But what prompts us to ski and to teach others? These behaviors can be accounted for, but no one has done it-until now.Develop a better understanding of what humanity gets out of skiing and become a better skier or ski instructor in the process. You'll gain a greater appreciation of the sport once you discover "It's About Skiing and Not the Skis."

If psychology has to do with questions that can be answered with the methods of science, those examined here belong to philosophy.

They include: the mind-body problem, metaphysics, reification, explanation, causality, theory, laws and principles, anthromorphism, purpose, freedom, knowledge, induction, and the fact-value problem. So far, none of them has been reduced to measurement and that is why they remain problems of philosophy and psychology.

People still want to know the answers to the questions addressed in Problems of Metaphysics and Psychology.

Of course, they want to know the answers to a great many more questions than are dealt with here, but a limit has to be drawn somewhere. The ones included here are: "What is Psychology? What is Behaviorism? What is Science? What is Behavior? What is a Stimulus? What is Learning? What is Reinforcement? What is Motivation? What is Emotion? What is Instinct?" and, "What is Human Nature?" No one of them was answered for all time earlier, and they are not likely to be answered now but reissuing the book at this time may remind those who are interested of what has gone before.

Behavior theory explains not only why we do what we do, but especially skiing and ski teaching behavior.