Puting on my mechanistic hat for a second (and I don't believe anything I'm about to say),......You say networks are sets of relational probabilities....The...
... Joe - Dermot, along with Pete Hampson, Fiona Lyddy, and Veronica Cullinan have done connectionist modelling of relational networks. I think they used the...
... I guess I'm more sceptical than you are that cognitivists are going to come around to behaviorial ways of explanation. They seem to be more wedded...
I would agree with Raymond that cognitivists are unlikely to come around to behavioral ways of explanation. When it comes to the differences between cognitive...
Ian Stewart
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Apr 1, 2004 9:53 am
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This is a beautiful reply from Ian -- so spot on. One small thing -- it's okay to adopt a mechanist or ontological assumption in the service of achieving a...
Dermot Barnes-Holmes
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Apr 1, 2004 10:15 am
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Sorry the last line should have read ("ACT-RFT link"). I really need a holiday! D. ... Dermot Barnes-Holmes Professor of Psychology and Head of Department ...
Dermot Barnes-Holmes
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Apr 1, 2004 10:21 am
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Matthew Smout wrote the following to me. I post a reply to the list because there may be some general interest. (warning-- very long) I've noticed that you...
Kelly G. Wilson, Ph.D.
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Apr 1, 2004 12:49 pm
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Hi Joe et al, I also like Steve's definition that "Networks are more like historically and situationally regulated sets of relational probabilities." I often...
... Lurking becomes difficult reading these great exchanges...on a topic I'm almost emotionally invested in...so a small point someone may have mentioned, but...
Society supports science because it wants science to make a difference. Behavioral types of all varieties did great making a difference until they smacked into...
I am still having trouble with the distinction between a contextual cue and a discriminative stimulus...I 'get it' in a sort of intuitive way and I'm not sure...
discriminative stimulus is a highly specific term. it is a stimulus that 1. alters the prob of an operant class of behavior and _critically_, 2. does so as...
Kelly G. Wilson
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Apr 2, 2004 12:31 pm
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Hi All, As my contract stated, this is the last issue of the Behavior Analyst Today as the lead editor. Under my tenure the Behavior Analyst Today was created,...
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Apr 6, 2004 7:49 am
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Some say that you should thank your enemy for giving you the opportunity to bring out the best you have. The more cunning and aggressive the attack, the better...
We welcome critique. There has not been much from the cog world, because we have not _yet_ published a lot in that world. Behaviorism remains, for them, ...
Kelly G. Wilson
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Apr 7, 2004 12:54 pm
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The problem with the criticism so far when I unpack it is that it is basically philosophical ... though usually the critics don't realize that. Inside the...
I need to tap into the collective genius of RFT list serve members to get some solid examples of how RFT principles are currently being applied to clinical...
I fear that RFT will be considered irrelevant to many cog psych's , given the sorts of questions that many of them are attempting to answer Here are some...
I need to tap into the collective genius of RFT list serve members to get some solid examples of how RFT principles are currently being applied to clinical...
Hello - I'm seeking more info on RFT having heard it mentioned at Dr. Vince Carbone's workshop on verbal behavior. I've heard it bridges the divide between...
I was looking at my mentor's mentor's dissertation the other day (Allen Edwards ... dead now. Developed the Edwards Personality Inventory). The issue was...
Isn't that one of the problems with hypothetico-deductivism in general , that you're observations are glued to existing theory and it's concepts. A link to...
What is the functional contextual reply to an argument such as, "entity postulating theories advance science. There was a time when molecules, atoms, gravity,...
Good points all. excellent thread. I just want to reply to something Patty said ... task C ... in similar ... Ok, I'm going to be as argumentative as possible,...
Maybe mapping the relation brain-behavior is more important when it comes to behavior that is closely linked to the brain (ADHD, reading deficits?). That was...
Hey Gang: I want to reply to threads in Fiona's and Joe's posts. Fiona's: In the Precision Teaching community they have adopted a practice for new-comers who...
It seems that cognitive science has advanced our understanding of how the brain works and has advanced computer technology more than our understanding of human...
Hello, I am currently teaching an undergraduate course on mindfulness/acceptance-based approaches at Skidmore College. One of my students, Marta Krajniak, is...
Hello, I subscribed about a week ago, but don't seem to be getting any postings... did it somehow not get through? Thanks Dawn...
UltraDawn
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Apr 16, 2004 2:08 am
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An old psychoanalytic theory of malingering was that for some patients, they would "loose control" over simulated psychological "symptoms." The procees...