ABSTRACT

The objective of behavioral electronics is the application of electronics to the understanding, maintenance, and modification of human behavior. Although this objective is becoming increasingly feasible in view of the rapid advances in instrumentation, telemetry, and molecular engineering, it has as yet received little attention from either experimental or clinical psychologists. Perhaps this lag exists because the content of behavioral electronics falls within that vast excluded area between the laboratory of the experimental psychologist and the clinic of the psychotherapist. And here, between the laboratory and the clinic, lies almost the entire natural environment of humanity, practically untouched and unexplored by direct scientific procedures.