Consequences of Radical Behaviorist Externalism
Keywords:
Radical behaviorism, Behavior analysis, Physiology of behavior, Private eventsAbstract
Skinner's approach to a science of behavior is discussed with reference to the concept of "externalism" (the
search for relations between the organism and external events). Skinner's works, respectively, from 1938, 1953 and 1990,
whose discourses deal with different explanations of behavior, are examined in order to emphasize his persistent concern with
drawing a clear distinction between behavior analysis and (neuro)physiology. Certain aspects of Skinner's writings, that seem
to provide insufficient support for any definitive statement regarding the autonomy of a science of behavior, are highlighted
along with resultant difficulties that have arisen in the literature of the field.
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A response to Reese. The Behavior Analyst, 19, 75-78.
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em uma explicação comportamental: uma discussão
do modelo explicativo skinneriano a partir da contraposição
desta proposta ao pensamento etológico de K. Lorenz. Dissertação
de Mestrado, Universidade Federal do Pará, Belém.
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da análise do comportamento? Psicologia: Reflexão e Crítica,
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uma abordagem transdisciplinar baseada na pragmática. Cadernos
de Subjetividade, 3, 315-340.
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and biology. The Behavior Analyst, 19, 71-73.
Donahoe, J.W., Burgos, J.E. & Palmer, D.C. (1993). A selectionist
approach to reinforcement. Journal of the Experimental Analysis
of Behavior, 60, 17-40.
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Boston/London: Allyn and Bacon.
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etc. are never initiating causes of behavior: Reply to Overskeid.
Psychological Record, 45, 577-589.
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core: A review of Stephen C. Pepper's World hypotheses:
A study in evidence. Journal of the Experimental Analysis
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Who can tell the difference? Psychological Record, 44, 35-43.
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Free Press/Collier MacMillan. (Originalmente publicado
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Knopf.
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American Psychologist, 32, 1006-1012.
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121-135). Columbus, Ohio: Merrill. (Originalmente publicado
em 1988)
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Psychologist, 45, 1206-1210.
Smith, T.L. (1983). Skinner's environmentalism: The analogy with
natural selection. Behaviorism, 11, 133-153.
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A reply to Overskeid. Psychological Record, 45, 349-354.
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e pragmatismo. Temas em Psicologia, 2, 41-56.
Tourinho, E.Z. (1997). Privacidade, comportamento e o conceito
de ambiente interno. Em R.A. Banaco (Org.), Sobre comportamento
e cognição (Volume 1, pp. 217-229). Santo André, São
Paulo: ABPMC/ARBytes.
Watson, J.B. (1970). Behaviorism. New York: Norton Library. (Originalmente
publicado em 1930, como edição revisada e ampliada
de outra versão publicada em 1924).
Zuriff, GE. (1979). Ten inner causes. Behaviorism, 7(1), 1-8.
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Tourinho, E. Z. (2012). Consequences of Radical Behaviorist Externalism. Psicologia: Teoria E Pesquisa, 15(2). Retrieved from https://periodicos.unb.br/index.php/revistaptp/article/view/17386
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