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Alternatives to radical behaviorism

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  04 February 2010

Terry L. Smith
Affiliation:
Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of the District of Columbia, Washington, D.C. 20008. tsmlth@udcvax.bitnet

Abstract

Operant psychologists are looking for alternatives to radical behaviorism. Rachlin offers teleological behaviorism, but it may pose as many difficulties as radical behaviorism. There is, however, a less drastic way to defend Rachlin's thesis of “order in the relationship between organisms and environment.” It portrays operant principles as relating distal efficient causes to behavioral effects.

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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1995

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