Behaviorist manifesto

Behaviorist manifesto

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   • John b. Watson
     • Envelope
       • Applied behavioral analysis
         • I mean
           • "psychology as the behaviorist sees it"
             • Is a
               • purely objective experimental branch of natural science
                 • Its theoretical objective is
                   • predicting and controlling behavior
                     • It has
                       • 4 specific and described dimensions of applied behavior analysis
                         • The cueles are
                           • naturalism
                             • The dimension of conceptual systems
                               • Is
                                 • The monistic view that nothing exists outside of nature. In psychology Naturalism explains behavior without reference to hypothetical constructions. Whether the behavior is explicit or public, or implicit or private
                           • Objectivity
                             • The behavioral dimension
                               • Where the
                                 • Objectivity was not objectivism. The legacy of "experimental" is its analytical dimension. Prediction and control were means of understanding behavior, not goals in themselves.
                           • The experimental
                             • The analytical dimension
                               • It is
                                 • prediction and control as ends, not as means. And its Legacy for the applied dimension is behavior modification, not applied research.
                           • Applied research, behavioral applications and practice.
                             • The applied dimension
                               • The label applied is not determined by the research procedures used but by the interest that society shows in the problems being studied. In the Behavioral application, behavior, stimuli and/or organism under study are chosen based on their importance to man and society, rather than their importance to theory.
                           • They were not mentioned as defining characteristics of behaviorism, but are taken into account in the analysis.
                             • These are
                               • The technological dimension
                                 • Conceptually systematic and effective dimension
                                   • Give me to show some generality