Methodological behaviorism is not radical behaviorism

1982 ◽  
Vol 27 (1) ◽  
pp. 70-70
Author(s):  
Kurt Salzinger
Keyword(s):  
Radical Behaviorism ◽  
Methodological Behaviorism

scholarly journals METHODOLOGICAL BEHAVIORISM

2018 ◽  
Vol 13 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Jay Moore
Keyword(s):  
Subject Matter ◽  
Scientific Method ◽  
Reaction Times ◽  
Radical Behaviorism ◽  
Mental Life ◽  
Verbal Reports ◽  
Methodological Behaviorism ◽  
New Science ◽  
Prediction And Control ◽  
And Control

Early approaches to psychology assumed that mental life was the appropriate subject matter of the new science, and that introspective verbal reports and reaction times were the appropriate methods to support inferences about that subject matter. The problem was that these early approaches were vague, unreliable, and generally ineffective. Methodological behaviorism arose as an attempt to deal with this problem by asserting that theories and explanations in psychology, as well as the concepts they deployed, should be agreed upon. The key to agreement was that psychologists should talk only about observables, although talk of mental unobservables was later permitted if they were designated as theoretical constructs that were operationally defined through their relation to observables. This later view remains prominent in traditional psychology. The radical behaviorism of B. F. Skinner’s behavior analysis offers an alternative based on a critical analysis of the behavioral sources of control over a given term. In particular, the radical behaviorist concept of private behavioral events provides a unified account of nature in behavioral terms. Key words: verbal behavior, methodological behaviorism, radical behaviorism, operationism, prediction and control, private behavioral events, covering law, scientific method 

On the development of radical behaviorism

1990 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ellen P. Reese
Keyword(s):  
Radical Behaviorism

Radical Behaviorism As a Legacy of William James

2011 ◽  
Author(s):  
Eric P. Charles
Keyword(s):  
William James ◽  
Radical Behaviorism

scholarly journals A History of the Term Radical Behaviorism: From Watson to Skinner

1987 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 27-39 ◽  
Author(s):  
Susan M. Schneider ◽  
Edward K. Morris
Keyword(s):  
Radical Behaviorism ◽  
History Of

Radical Behaviorism

1999 ◽  
pp. 159-178 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jon Ringen
Keyword(s):  
Radical Behaviorism

scholarly journals Why the “Hoax” Paper of Baldwin (2018) Should Be Reinstated

2020 ◽  
pp. 004912412091495
Author(s):  
Geoff G. Cole
Keyword(s):  
Methodological Behaviorism

In 2018, a peer-reviewed article was published under the name of Richard Baldwin in which the author presented a critique of fat exclusion and advocated “fat bodybuilding” as a sport. Some months later, it became apparent that the article was intended as a hoax written to raise awareness to, or “expose”, a certain ideology promoted by some academics. As a result, the editors retracted the article. Using the principles of methodological behaviorism, and other hoax or hoax-like articles, I will argue that the thoughts and opinions held by any author are not important to the argument they present. I will also argue that this form of reflexive ethnography is too problematic to serve as a method of enquiry. I will therefore conclude that the Baldwin article should be reinstated.

Radical Behaviorism in Organizations: Misconceptions in the Locke-Gray Debate

1979 ◽  
Vol 4 (4) ◽  
pp. 601
Author(s):  
Marcia Parmerlee ◽  
Charles Schwenk
Keyword(s):  
Radical Behaviorism

Radical Statistics Supports Radical Behaviorism. And Almost Everything Else

1983 ◽  
Vol 12 (5) ◽  
pp. 31
Author(s):  
Robert F. Strahan
Keyword(s):  
Radical Behaviorism
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