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Successive Approximations to Selectionism: Skinner’s Framework for Behavior in the 1930s and 1940s

Year: 2018

Type: article

Abstract: Despite the centrality of selection by consequences in Skinnerian work, the adoption or not of a selectionist perspective in the first decades of Skinner's career is a controversial theme.Inconsistencies with respect to his affiliation or not with a selectionist epistemology in this period seem to reflect a lack of consensual definition of that proposal.Therefore, from three previously defined aspects of Skinner's selectionist explanatory principle, the aim of this review is to assess, through the

Source: Revista Mexicana de Análisis de la Conducta

DOI: 10.5514/rmac.v44.i1.65349

Authors: Monalisa de Fátima Freitas Carneiro Leão,, Marcus Bentes de Carvalho Neto

Institution: Universidade Federal do Pará

Language: English

Topic: Academic and Historical Perspectives in Psychology

Subfield: General Psychology

Field: Psychology

Domain: Social Sciences

Open Access status: diamond

Funders: Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior, Universidade Federal do Pará

OpenAlex ID: W2884339124

FWCI: 5.132

Cites: 30

Cited by: 4

Related to: 10