Jay Moore
University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee
68 Papers
945 Citations
Jay Moore is an academic researcher from University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee. The author has contributed to research in topics: Behaviorism & Radical behaviorism. The author has an hindex of 19, co-authored 68 publications.
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Papers
On Behaviorism and Private Events
TL;DR: Radical behaviorism may be distinguished from other varieties of behaviorism by the way that it accommodates private events, where a private event is understood as a verbal report of an internal sensation or the influence of such phenomena as thinking, consciousness, and the like.
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On mentalism, methodological behaviorism, and radical behaviorism
Jay Moore
- 12 Feb 1981
TL;DR: In this article, the authors present a collection of experimental practices called methodological behaviorism, and examine the nature of these practices, the variables responsible for them, and the relation between mentalism and methodological behaviourism.
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Choice and number of reinforcers.
TL;DR: Pigeons exposed to the concurrent-chains procedure in two experiments designed to investigate the effects of unequal numbers of reinforcers on choice were indifferent between long and short durations of access to variable-interval schedules and preferred a short high-density terminal link over a longer, lower density terminal link.
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On privacy, causes, and contingencies.
TL;DR: Radical behaviorism accommodates private phenomena in the context of the three term contingency of reinforcement with regard to their discriminative function, their nature as responses, or their reinforcing function.
The Roots of the Family Tree: A Review of Four Books on the History and Nature of Behaviorism
TL;DR: Behaviorism as discussed by the authors is an orientation to psychology that emerged from prevailing functional, developmental, and pragmatic concerns during the first and second decades of the 20th century, particularly in the areas of methodology and technology.
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