Titlebook: Behavior and Its Causes; Philosophical Founda Terry L. Smith Book 1994 Springer Science+Business Media B.V. 1994 Radical Behaviorism.Skinne

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Book 1994sing systems of all kinds, no matter whether human, (other) animal, or machine. Its scope is intended to span the full range of interests from classical problems in the philosophy of mind and philosophical psychology through issues in cognitive psychology and sociobiology (concerning the mental capa

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Fernand G. Péron,Burton V. Caldwellount for these relationships by means of hypotheses about inferred entities and processes. But to begin with, the problem was simply to find the relationships themselves. And to do this, it must find the correct descriptive categories.

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William W. Chin,Soheyla D. Gharibf one attends to the equilibrium that emerges after prolonged exposure to a stimulus rather than to moment-by-moment changes, then one can formulate simple behavioral principles that connect complex environmental causes to complex behavioral effects.

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Introduction The Anomalous Survival of Operant Psychology was a matter of dispute, but the revolution itself was not. Some described it with concepts introduced by Thomas S. Kuhn (1970), suggesting there had been a “paradigm shift” from behaviorism to cognitive psychology (Leahey, 1980). Others argued that there had never been a behaviorist paradigm, but

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Defining the Operantst, but in his opinion psychology had attempted to move too quickly to an advanced stage of theorizing, skipping over a necessary exploratory stage during which it discovers quantitative relationships between independent and dependent variables (causes and effects).. Eventually, psychology would acc

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Not a Form of S-R Psychologyzed sense in which this is so: an operant response does not require a stimulus. In the simplest case, the organism already has a certain operant response (say, lever pressing) in its repertoire. It emits this response at a certain rate spontaneously, without benefit of stimulation. If we now arrange

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The Functional Nature of Behavioral Categoriese an indefinite number of such units in its behavior and new ones are always being formed. Behavior analysts do not however propose to study behavior unit by unit, animal by animal. The main objects of study are the principles by which units come into existence, undergo change, and go out of existen

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Minor Problemssignificant (in which case they would not even merit discussion). I wish instead to distinguish them from an even more difficult problem to be discussed in succeeding chapters. Relative to that problem, these are minor. Nevertheless, each of the following lines of argumentation have had proponents w

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