In recent years, much of the hope for the basic project of materialism, that of explaining mentality in purely physical terms, has been vested in materialist varieties of functionalism (Kim 1998, 73). 1 Instead of identifying mentality with either behavior or brain states as the failed approaches of behaviorism and physicalism do, functionalism identifies mental states as “consisting of a dispo...

Despite John B. Watson's considerable importance in the history of psychology and his celebrity status during the first part of the twentieth century, substantive discussions of his life, work, and views are now relatively rare. Passing references to Watson still appear in scholarly and popular works (e.g., Koch & Leary, 1985; M. Levin, 1987), but in-depth analyses, when they can be found, are ...

This study attempts to examine and describe how parents' social position surroundings can affect their children's vocabulary competence when learning Indonesian. Based on behaviorism theory's tenets, which are also backed by cognitivism theory. According this hypothesis, a child's (exogenous) environment has significant impact ability acquire language, particularly it comes developing vocabular...

Abstract Lesson planning, assessment, and reflection constitute the key actions that teachers perform when students are not present in classroom (henceforth, “Type D” variable). These “pre- post-”actions most direct ways through which shape their observable teaching work as mediated by goals for teaching. representations of teachers’ epistemological commitments apropos mathematics, whether thos...