scholarly journals About teleological behaviorism

2013 ◽  
Vol 36 (2) ◽  
pp. 209-222 ◽  
Author(s):  
Howard Rachlin
Keyword(s):  
Teleological Behaviorism

Pattern proliferation in teleological behaviorism

1995 ◽  
Vol 18 (1) ◽  
pp. 145-146
Author(s):  
Bruce N. Waller
Keyword(s):  
Self Control ◽  
Behavioral Patterns ◽  
Teleological Behaviorism ◽  
Controlling Behavior

AbstractRachlin's teleological behaviorist account shows promise for extending our behavioral understanding of many aspects of self-control, particularly when self-control involves controlling behavior through larger behavioral patterns. However, it may face special challenges in dealing with instances of self-control that involve pattern breaking.

Teleological behaviorism and internal control of behavior

1995 ◽  
Vol 18 (1) ◽  
pp. 142-143
Author(s):  
Albert Silverstein
Keyword(s):  
Internal Control ◽  
Teleological Explanation ◽  
Teleological Behaviorism ◽  
Definition Of

AbstractThe Aristotelian position on causality advocates explaining biological events by the configuration of outcomes they normally achieve. Rachlin's analysis follows this strategy as an alternative to explanation via hypothetical “inner” events, though he omits considering one definition of “inner” explanation (historical definition) as being complementary to teleological explanation. He also fails to provide a detailed teleological analysis of the role of bridging responses in allowing animals to select larger-outcome alternatives.

Teleological Behaviorism

1999 ◽  
pp. 195-215 ◽  
Author(s):  
Howard Rachlin
Keyword(s):  
Teleological Behaviorism

Can teleological behaviorism account for the effects of instructions on self-control without invoking cognition?

1995 ◽  
Vol 18 (1) ◽  
pp. 135-135
Author(s):  
Kristi Lemm ◽  
Yuichi Shoda ◽  
Walter Mischel
Keyword(s):  
Self Control ◽  
Temporal Patterning ◽  
Control Behavior ◽  
Verbal Instructions ◽  
Teleological Behaviorism ◽  
Experimental Findings

AbstractIn its commitment to eschewing internal causes, the teleological behavioristic analysis endeavors to explain self-control through the temporal patterning of behavior, but it leaves unanswered the most challenging questions. It fails to account convincingly for experimental findings in which self-control behavior was predictably changed by verbal instructions to think about and imagine the rewards in different ways.

The teleological science of self-control

1997 ◽  
Vol 20 (2) ◽  
pp. 367-369 ◽  
Author(s):  
Howard Rachlin
Keyword(s):  
Human Behavior ◽  
Behavioral Pattern ◽  
Self Control ◽  
Teleological Behaviorism ◽  
Complex Patterns ◽  
The Mind

In response to Ainslie & Gault: The value of a temporally extended behavioral pattern depends on relationships inherent in the pattern itself. It is not possible to express that value as the simple sum of the discounted present values of the pattern's component acts.In response to Leiber: Teleological behaviorism may be deemed unscientific because it has not yet succeeded to the required degree in predicting and controlling the highly complex patterns of human behavior that comprise our mental lives. However teleological behaviorism is not unscientific because it is teleological or “noncausal;” nor is teleological behaviorism unscientific because it is not reducible to neurophysiology. Nothing in principle bars the development of a teleological science of the mind.

The role of negative reinforcement; or: Is there an altruist in the house?

2002 ◽  
Vol 25 (2) ◽  
pp. 257-258 ◽  
Author(s):  
Edmund J. Fantino ◽  
Stephanie J. Stolarz-Fantino
Keyword(s):  
Conditioned Reinforcement ◽  
Negative Reinforcement ◽  
Self Control ◽  
Behavioral Analysis ◽  
Behavioral Patterns ◽  
Teleological Behaviorism ◽  
Rule Governed Behavior

We agree with Rachlin's argument that altruism is best understood as a case of self-control, and that a behavioral analysis is appropriate. However, the appeal to teleological behaviorism and the value of behavioral patterns may be unnecessary. Instead, we argue that altruism can generally be explained with traditional behavioral principles such as negative reinforcement, conditioned reinforcement, and rule-governed behavior.

Teleological behaviorism and the intentional scheme

1995 ◽  
Vol 18 (1) ◽  
pp. 134-135
Author(s):  
Hugh Lacey
Keyword(s):  
Human Behavior ◽  
Essential Role ◽  
Teleological Behaviorism ◽  
Subjective Perspective

AbstractTeleological behaviorism, unlike Skinnerian behaviorism, recognizes that “mental terms’ are needed to account adequately for human behavior, but it rejects the essential role in behavioral explanations of the subjective perspective of the agent. I argue that teleological behaviorism fails because of this rejection.

Autonomy from the Viewpoint of Teleological Behaviorism

Autonomy ◽  
2003 ◽  
pp. 245-264
Author(s):  
Howard Rachlin
Keyword(s):  
Teleological Behaviorism

Teleological Behaviorism: Origins and Present Status

2021 ◽  
pp. 3-19
Author(s):  
Howard Rachlin
Keyword(s):  
Present Status ◽  
Teleological Behaviorism

Teleological behaviorism and altruism

2002 ◽  
Vol 25 (2) ◽  
pp. 266-267 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hugh Lacey
Keyword(s):  
Self Control ◽  
Social Cooperation ◽  
Teleological Behaviorism

Rachlin shows that experiments about social cooperation may fruitfully be grouped with experiments on self-control, and that this suggests interesting possibilities for practical behavioral controls. The concepts of selfishness and altruism, however, that inform his theorizing about these experiments, do not serve to provide understanding of the behavior that commonly is referred to, derogatorily, as selfish.

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