INTRODUCTION: THE BEHAVIORISM

INTRODUCTION: THE BEHAVIORISM

1. EXEGETICAL PROBLEMS

   • IT HAS TO BE INTERPRETED ACCORDING THE WORK AND WORDS OF THE AUTHOR
     • WATSON
       • "EXCCESIVE ENVIROMENTALISM OF BEHAVIORISM"
     • SKINNER
       • THE TREATMENT OF HIS CHILDREN

2. EMOTIONAL REACTIONS

   • BECAUSE OF THE SUBJECT MATTER
     • FROM OUTSIDE
       • DISCUSSION OF HUMAN NATURE AND HUMAN BEHAVIOR
       • CONFLICT WITH FOLK PYSCHOLOGY
     • FROM INSIDE
       • SUCH AS
         • RYLE-MEANINGLESS OF METAPHYSICS
         • THE CONCEPT OF SKINNER´S NERVOUS SYSTEM
         • EMBRACING THE THEORY AS A WAY OF LIFE

3. PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE

   • BEHAVIORISM IS THE META-POSITION
     • WHAT IS SUBJECT MATTER OF PSYCHOLOGY?
     • HOW SHOULD THIS SUBJECT MATTER BE STUDIED?
     • WHAT CONSTITUTES THIS POSITION IS
       • LEARNING THEORY
       • EVOLUTIONARY THEORY
       • EMPIRICAL REGULARITIES
       • PSYCHOLOGICAL PHENOMENA
         • HABITUATION, CLASSICAL CONDITIONING , OPERANT CONDITIONING
       • CERTAIN KIND OF METHODOLOGIES
         • ANIMAL PREPARATIONS,LEANING CURVES
       • APPLIED BEHAVIORISM
         • BEHAVIOR MODIFICATION

4. BEHAVIORISM AND THE EFFECTIVENESS OF PRACTICAL PROBLEM SOLVING

   • SUCH AS
     • BEHAVIOR MODIFICATION
     • BEHAVIOR THERAPHY
     • APPLIED BEHAVIOR ANALYSIS
     • BEHAVIORAL EDUCATION
     • BEHAVIOR MEDICINE
     • MANY OF THESE THERAPIES ARE HEAVILY INFLUENCE BY SKINNER´ WORK

5. AMERICAN CHARACTER

   • WHY DO BEHAVIORISM DEVELOP IN ENGLAND AND EU?
     • RELATIVE AFFLUENCE
     • VALUES AND HISTORICAL CONTINGENCIES OF THOSE COUNTRIES
       • PLASTICITY OF THE INDIVIDUAL
       • ITS OPTIMISM
       • UTOPIAN WORLD VIEW
       • RURAL AGRARIAN CHARACTER
       • VALUE IN MECHANICAL SKILLS
       • ITS PRAGMATISM
       • SIMPLE AND DIRECT COMMUNICATTION

6. QUO VADIS?

   • BEHAVIORISM IS A PROGRESSIVE REASEARCH PROGRAM

7. ALL THE INFLUENCES PORTRAYED

   • THE NATURE OF DISAGREEMENTS
     • BECAUSE OF ADDRESSING
       • DIFFERENT ISSUES
       • THE SAME ISSUE AT A DIFFERENT LEVEL OF ABSTRACTION
     • VARIETIES
     • QUESTIONS
       • WHAT DO THESE FORM OF IDEAS HAVE IN COMMON?
         • GENUS ET DIFFERENTIA
           • SHARING A SET OF PROPIERTIES IN COMMON
         • PROTOTYPE THEORY
           • USING WATSON´S IDEAS TO FIT INTO THEM
         • FAMILY RESEMBLANCE
           • SHARING A COMPLICATED NETWORK OF SIMILARITIES OVERLAPPING AND CRISS-CROSSING
             • NATURAL SCIENCE
               • THIS MEANS TO SHARE A CONTINUITY IN THE KIND OF REASEARCH METHODS, THEORIES, QUESTIONS AND BETWEEN SCIENCES
             • OBJECTIVE EVIDENCE
               • THIS MAKES A HUGE PROBLEM IN REGARD TO LIMIT EXACTLY WHAT CONSTITUTES OBJECTIVE EVIDENCE
             • RULED OUT INTROSPECTION
             • PROBLEMS WITH MENTAL TERMS
             • THEORY AND DATA ARE TIED
             • RELATED WITH LEARNING RESEARCH
             • INTERRELATIONSHIP OF EVOLUTION AND THEORY KNOWLEDGE
             • TO TRANSLATE MENTALISTIC TERMS TO OBSERVABLE EVENTS
       • HOW DOES BEHAVIOURISM WATCH FROM OUTSIDE?
         • RELATED WITH LOGICAL POSITIVISM
           • SOME PEOPLE THINKS THAT BECAUSE LOGICAL POSITIVISM IS DEAD, AND IF BEHAVIOURISM IS BASED OFF THAT FRAME IT IS ALSO DEAD
           • ERROR
             • THE IMPORTATION THESIS
               • THE BELIEF OF TAKING OUT METHODOLOGY AND PHILOSOPHY OF POSITIVISM
             • THE SUBORDINATION THESIS
               • TO THESE PHILOSOPHICAL COMMITMENTS
             • THE THESIS OF LINKED FATES