A03 Describe & Explain Behavior From The Perspective of Radical Behaviorism Part 1 Flashcards
Although erroneous, mentalism is most like
An antecedent analysis
Which is not an explanatory fiction? A child becomes an award winning pianist because
He practices ten hours a week
With regard to feeling, behavior analysts maintain that they
Involve covert and respondent behavior governed by the same contingencies that affect overt behavior.
Mentalism
All the above:
Tends to halt further inquiry into causal factors, appeals to feelings or state of mind as a cause of behavior, is an antecedent analysis
Mentalism
Characterizes feelings or states of mind as causes of behavior
Mentalism tends to
Halt further inquiry into causal factors
Explanatory Fiction
a fictitious variable tha often is simply another name for the observed behavior that other is simply viewing the cause and effect of a situation
A dog runs to the door when he hears the garage door open. Which is not an explanatory fiction?
Running to the door when the car has pulled up has been reinforced by seeing his master.
With circular reasoning, the cause is determined
From the same information as the effect
Feelings
All the above:
Can be collateral products, can be explanatory fictions, do not cause behavior
One reason behavior analysis is a natural science is that
It doesn’t employ mentalism
Which is the correct way to talk about reinforcement?
Behavior occurs more often in the future due to the reinforcing consequence
From a radical behavioral perspective, emotions and feelings
Are no different from other behaviors and can be analyzed and explained as such
Feelings
Can be explanatory fictions
- structuralism and methodological behaviorism
Methodological behaviorism Reject 👎🏽 private events , they rely only on public Events ,
They ignore understanding behavior
by excluding privite events
