Open AccessO (não) lugar do reflexo no modo causal de seleção pelas consequências de Skinner
Author(s) -
Marcus Bentes de Carvalho-Neto,
Thais Maria Monteiro Guimarães,
Alejandra Rodríguez Sarmiento,
Monalisa de Fátima Freitas Carneiro Leão
Publication year - 2017
Publication title -
interação em psicologia
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.105
H-Index - 1
eISSN - 1981-8076
pISSN - 1981-8068
DOI - 10.5380/psi.v20i3.47705
Subject(s) - psychology , humanities , physics , philosophy
Skinner in 1 981 proposed a general causal mode to explain the behavior involving two basic andcomplementary processes: variation and selection. Sometimes selectionism is presented as a substitutemechanism inside and outside the behavioral level. However, there is a point of tension in thisinterpretation: the behavior/conditioning reflex. This kind of behavior and learning would be explainedby laws compatible with the mechanism, the laws of reflex, not involving variation and selection. Towhat extent, then, selecting the consequences would be a general explanatory so even if it would apply toall cases of behavior? An alternative interpretation is offered on the nature and scope of Skinnerianselectionism