Question 4; Is there only behavior?

13 important questions on Question 4; Is there only behavior?

What did behaviorists argue for psychology to be a proper science?

It shouldn ot accept unobservable mental entities as research objects and therefore should also shun any talk about subjective mental properties.

What is all behavior according to behaviorists?

A reflex-like nature.

What was the model of behavior according to behaviorists?

There was input that goes into a black box, in which we have no idea what is happening and then there is output.
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Methodological behaviorism / psychological behaviorism?

The motivation for psychologists to accept behaviorism was methodological: science should use an objective method so that all observations could be verified independently.

What were the problems with introspectionism?

  • The observations could only be made by the subject
  • It is impossible to studythe mental life of animals they evidently are not able to report verbally on their inner mental life. 

What do behaviorists study?

The correlations between stimulus (input) and behavior or respons (output).

What did Ryle argue about behavior and the immaterial mind?

The mind is nothing more than a set of dispositions to behave, and if you think that it is more you are making a category mistake.

What is the pseudo-problem about the category 'mind'?

By thinking that two categories are involved, instead of just one, you might generate the problem of how the two different categories are related.

What is our first philosophical motivation for a defense of behaviorism?

Tha the mind just is that set of behavial dispositions.

What is the claim of behaviorism?

That any sentence containing a reference to a subjective mental term can be paraphrased without loss of meaning?

What is the behaviorist dilemma?

Deny the obvious truty, that there was actually more to the mind than behavior, or to acknowledge it and thereby  undermine behaviorism.

What are the reasons why philosophical behaviorism failed?

It is impossible to paraphrase sentences containing a mental term in new sentences containing only behavioral dispositions without loss of meaning.

What are the problems with behaviorism?

They are not able to come up with paraphrases that entail all possible dispositions, they leave out the qualia and are not able to analyze thinking in dispositional terms.

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