Unit 4 Flashcards
Contextualism
Consider the circumstances of behavior and its context
Field theory: Championed by
J. R. Kantor
Field theory: Looks at interaction between
Individual and the total field/environment
Interbehavioral psychology
Nothing has meaning outside of the context in which it occurs
Molar behaviorism: Looks at
Effects of reinforcement across temporally extended patterns of responding
Relational frame theory is a type of
Functional contextual behaviorist theory based on stimulus equivalence
Relational frame theory is considered an
Extension of Skinner’s analysis of verbal behavior
Acceptance and commitment therapy
RFT applied to psychological ailments
Postmodernism:
Relation to behavior analysts
Behavior analysis avoided this position post-WWII
Postmodernism: Position that
Everything is a social construction
Postmodernism: Augments
Power of 1 group over another
Selectionism
Describes the process of change over time
Natural selection: What is selected?
Genes
Cultural selection: What is selected?
Cultural practice
Operant selection: What is selected?
Behavior
Essentialism
Organisms are endowed with immutable features
Principle of variation
Not every member of a species is exactly the same
Principle of natural selection
Some traits and genes survive, others do not
Positive traits:
Traits that are
Selected for survival utility
Negative traits:
Traits that are
Deselected for liability to survival
Phylogeny
Deals with lifetime of the species