Radical Behaviorism and Cognitive Psychology
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What is radical behaviorism? What is Cognitive psychology? How are radical behaviorism and cognitive psychology similar? How are they different?
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The solution discusses Radical Behaviorism, and describes the similarites betwen Radical Behaviorism and Cognitive Psychology in 615 words with four references.
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- What is Radical Behaviorism?
Radical behaviorism is a complex conceptualization of behavior postulated by B. F. Skinner. From this perspective, Skinner did not deny the existence of the importance of personal experience, but denied the mind/body dualism that was introduced by the Methodological behaviorists, or mentalists (Malone & Cruchan, 2001). Radical behaviorism emerged in opposition to the methodological view--a philosophical position that events inside the mind could not be publicly observed or verified, and thus are ruled out as scientific accounts. The radical behaviorist position did not deny self-knowledge, or self-observation, but offered a re-conceptualization of what could actually be observed. For example, Skinner postulated that behaviors derive from past contexts and personal history. In ...
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