This article offers some personal reflections on the difficulty of teaching the behaviorist perspective in the psychology classroom. The problems focus on the inadequacy of introductory textbooks-which mischaracterize behaviorism, only present the most extreme behaviorist positions, make no mention of the neobehaviorist perspective, fail to discuss that there is no accepted criteria for determi...

externalim currently dominating the theory of meaning and content. However, foundational issues such as these remain insuffi ciently explored; because of the role the shared environment plays in radical interpretation, Davidson thought of himself as a social and physical externalist, though clearly not of the mainstream kind (cf. 2001 ) . So long as a systematic comparison of these competing ac...

one of the remarkable concerns of existing thinkers in the field of philosophy of religion is question of philosophical and epistemological approach to ideological movements. moreover, they explain their position toward reason and its epistemological value. the epistemological importance of this issue is because of its assumptions like: relation and situation of “narration and reason”, “revelat...

The aim of this article is to provide a concise overview the theoretical assumptions behaviorism, which generally informs “traditional” approaches sport coaching. B.F. Skinner's (1904–1990) theory operant conditioning discussed, alongside considerations for coaching practice. For coaches who draw upon principles conditioning, four reflective questions are posed. This does not attempt present be...