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Direct linkMoxley, Roy A. – Behavior Analyst, 2005
Ernst Mach is most closely associated with a positivism that demanded a language of close contact with reality. Mach linked this view with the tradition of the quest for an ideal language in which meaning is a property of a word. Logical positivism and the S-R psychology of the early B. F. Skinner also participated in this ideal-language…
Descriptors: Psychology, Verbal Stimuli, Pragmatics, Behavior Theories
Morris, Edward K.; Smith, Nathaniel G.; Altus, Deborah E. – Behavior Analyst, 2005
Our paper reviews and analyzes B. F. Skinner's contributions to applied behavior analysis in order to assess his role as the field's originator and founder. We found, first, that his contributions fall into five categorizes: the style and content of his science, his interpretations of typical and atypical human behavior, the implications he drew…
Descriptors: Review (Reexamination), Intellectual History, Profiles, Behavior Theories
