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22 Mar 2022
Again, a scientific psychology calls an emphatic halt to the injection of such ideas as matter, spirit, divinity, vitalism, absolute powers, supernaturalism, into philosophical systems.
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29 Jan 2022
“Operational definitions begin with concepts in search of behavior; operant definitions begin with behavior in search of concepts. The difference in temporal sequence is of utmost importance to a behavioral science.”researchgate.net/publication…
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23 Jan 2022
Causal changes or fields are functions of mutual and reciprocal changes in every aspect of a factorial system.
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11 Jan 2022
"Pierce wrote as a logician and James as a humanist."
--John Dewey
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7 Jan 2022
The transformation of Aristotelian psychology at the hands of St. Thomas and his peers can be most easily visualized by tabulating some of the principal contrasts between the original Greek work and the scholastic interpretation of it.
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Ecological psychology is nowadays regarded as one anti-representational theory of perception, action, and cognition among several others. In some ways, this is a natural framing for the ecological approach given the dominant paradigm in the sciences of the
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5 Jan 2022
The obligatory, but we are not behaviorists!
“Our critique of a form of ‘unrestrained mentalism’ common in neuroscience does not entail a return to behaviourism.” royalsocietypublishing.org/d…
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5 Jan 2022
I learned something about the brain—not as modular as we would like it to be—and a behavior systems approach like Timberlake’s might be useful for investigating it. Not cited but relevant: sciencedirect.com/science/ar…
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5 Jan 2022
They do cite Uttal’s (2001) The New Phrenology, and I wonder why this sort of behaviorism isn’t worth pursuing to some extent:
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2 Jan 2022
“[The] ecological conviction [is that] at some level of analysis, there necessarily exists information that is specific to its source”—Michaels and Carello, 𝘋𝘪𝘳𝘦𝘤𝘵 𝘗𝘦𝘳𝘤𝘦𝘱𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯
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30 Dec 2021
Interested in interbehaviorism or not, you can appreciate the historical survey Kantor provides in almost every one of his books.
29 Dec 2021
In the present volume I have critically surveyed the P.P. [Physiological Psychology] field in an attempt to clarify its most important issues. In Section I an inquiry is made into its historical development; 1/3
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28 Dec 2021
“The notion of ‘acceptance’ has found an unassailable place in modern treatment. It even has its own banner – acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT) – recognised as part of the so-called third wave of cognitive behavioural therapy.” @myACBS
28 Dec 2021
Ahead of her time, yet largely ignored by psychiatry, Claire Weekes taught millions of readers how to overcome anxiety. From the archive: psyche.co/ideas/one-womans-s…
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25 Dec 2021
That the behavior of looking into a mirror is a function of its consequences.
24 Dec 2021
𝐈𝐟 𝐟𝐢𝐬𝐡 𝐜𝐚𝐧 𝐩𝐚𝐬𝐬 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐦𝐢𝐫𝐫𝐨𝐫 𝐭𝐞𝐬𝐭, what do we conclude? Published in PLOS Biology after many controls.
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25 Dec 2021
“We have shown how at least one instance of behavior attributed to self-awareness can be accounted for in terms of an environmental history. We submit that other instances, including those exhibited by humans, can be dealt with in a similar way.”
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17 Dec 2021
What's that - you have a new animal model system, or a synthetic organism, biobot, hybrid, chimera, robot, or AI, and you want to see where on the cognitive continuum it lands? Want to look for memory and learning capacity? Start here:
tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.…
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13 Dec 2021
Even philosophers who distain dualism justify these propositions on the ground that the equation of the brain and the mind, or somehow to commix them, minimizes the influence of spiritism.
13 Dec 2021
We turn now to the second illustration of the devastating influence of dualistic philosophy on science. This is the notorious doctrine…that mental processes, though occult and private, are vouched for and supported by the nervous system. 1/3
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24 Nov 2021
Stimuli and responses are reciprocal factors in a behavior segment. One cannot occur without the other. Probably the best way to describe a response is to say that it is something that the organism does with respect to the stimulus object.
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21 Nov 2021
The objective psychologist makes a fresh start when investigating human behavior. He eschews completely all historical or current dogmas about “minds” and “bodies.”
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