A self-interpretive behavior analysis. |
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Authors: | P N Hineline |
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Affiliation: | Department of Psychology, Temple University, Philadelphia, PA 19122. |
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Abstract: | Although it rejects self-awareness as psychological bedrock, behavior-analytic theory can be stated self-inclusively, keeping the theorist within view. Its principles of discrimination and generalization have been elaborated to include concepts and higher order conditionalities, including those of logic and of awareness. Its violating a cultural bias that is called the "fundamental attribution error" may be a primary source of controversies. Its other disagreements with mainstream psychologies hinge more on contiguous versus remote causation than on mentalism versus antimentalism, which Skinner emphasized. The nonmediational, Skinnerian theorist is a participation in the world rather than an isolated self. |
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