Uma análise histórica de respostas verbais de relacionar behaviorismo radical e determinismo / A historical analysis of verbal responses of relating radical behaviorism and determinism

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DATA DE PUBLICAÇÃO

2005

RESUMO

This study attempted to analyze articles historically from national and international journals that discuss the relationship between radical behaviorism and determinism. Analyzing how authors have related determinism and radical behaviorism means to analyze the verbal behavior of the authors and its controlling variables. Specifically, this study analyze: the distribution of the articles that discuss the relations between radical behaviorism and determinism throughout the years; the journals that they were published; the authorship of the articles; the citation of Skinners works in these articles; the kind of citation made and the definitions of determinism found in the articles. The verbal responses of the authors were compared to Skinners verbal responses (as understood by the authors); historical analysis of the theme of this study was identified. The results show that there was a high rate of publication from the end of the 80s to the beginning of this decade. The Behavior Analyst and Behaviorism and Philosophy were that journals that had more articles published about this theme. 141 different publications of Skinner were cited in the articles. The most common kind of citation was citing some part of Skinners work directly. The most common definitions of determinism found were those that defined determinism as mechanism causal mode. The second most common definitions of determinism were those that defined determinism as selection by consequences. Seven different types of relations between radical behaviorism and determinism were found. Except for one established relation, all the others were considered determinist: 1) denial of determinism; 2) assertion of determinism (this relation refers to specific verbal responses that explicitly asserts that radical behaviorism is determinist in relation to verbal responses that deny determinism); 3) approximation of mechanistic modes; 4) dissociation from mechanistic modes; 5) dissociation from teleological causal modes; 6) approximation of causal modes that search for the causes of behavior in external environmental variables and 7) approximation of causal modes that consider different levels of determination (e.g. phylogenetic, ontogenetic and cultural). Dissociation from mechanistic models was the most common relation identified in the articles. Few articles made historical analysis. Most of the authors think they have the same position about this theme as did Skinner

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determinism historical analysis behaviorismo radical determinismo análise histórica behaviorismo (psicologia) psicologia experimental radical behaviorism

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