The objective psychologist makes a fresh start when investigating human behavior. He eschews completely all historical or current dogmas about “minds” and “bodies.”

Stimuli and responses are reciprocal factors in a behavior segment. One cannot occur without the other. Probably the best way to describe a response is to say that it is something that the organism does with respect to the stimulus object.

Even philosophers who distain dualism justify these propositions on the ground that the equation of the brain and the mind, or somehow to commix them, minimizes the influence of spiritism.

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“The notion of ‘acceptance’ has found an unassailable place in modern treatment. It even has its own banner – acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT) – recognised as part of the so-called third wave of cognitive behavioural therapy.” Association for Contextual Behavioral Science

Interested in interbehaviorism or not, you can appreciate the historical survey Kantor provides in almost every one of his books.

“[The] ecological conviction [is that] at some level of analysis, there necessarily exists information that is specific to its source”—Michaels and Carello, 𝘋𝘪𝘳𝘦𝘤𝘵 𝘗𝘦𝘳𝘤𝘦𝘱𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯

Presentation preview: Ecological psychology is nowadays regarded as one anti-representational theory of perception, action, and cognition among several others. In some ways, this is a natural framing for the ecological approach given the dominant paradigm in the sciences of the

The transformation of Aristotelian psychology at the hands of St. Thomas and his peers can be most easily visualized by tabulating some of the principal contrasts between the original Greek work and the scholastic interpretation of it.

"Pierce wrote as a logician and James as a humanist." --John Dewey

Causal changes or fields are functions of mutual and reciprocal changes in every aspect of a factorial system.

“Operational definitions begin with concepts in search of behavior; operant definitions begin with behavior in search of concepts. The difference in temporal sequence is of utmost importance to a behavioral science.”researchgate.net/publication/24…

Again, a scientific psychology calls an emphatic halt to the injection of such ideas as matter, spirit, divinity, vitalism, absolute powers, supernaturalism, into philosophical systems.