Question 3: Behaviorism Flashcards
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Behaviorism
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- All mental states are reduced in some way to the behaviors of our body.
- Mental states are behavior or dispositions to behavior. A person is in pain only if and because, she is crying or wincing or …
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Super Stoic Objection
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Imagine a community of ‘super-stoics’ — a community in which the adults have the ability to successfully suppress all voluntary pain behavior. However, they do feel pain
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The Perfect Pretender Objection
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A person who does not feel pain, yet shows all the behavior associated with pain
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Causal Objection to Behaviorism
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My pain can’t cause my crying, because my pain IS my crying. Nothing can cause itself
