PSYCHOLOGY AS THE STUDY OF INTERACTIONS
Abstract
The problems with the variety of definitions of psychology
are analyzed, and the advantages, from the point of view of behavior
analysis, of defining psychology as the study of organism-environment
relations. Such interactions can be seen as a continuum where the passage
from psychology to biology or to social sciences is often a matter of
convenience. The experimental analysis of behavior uses contingencies
and functional relationships as tools for the study of organism-environment
relations.
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