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...

The purpose of this study is to explore the possibility reconciliation between Kant’s transcendental idealism and McCarthy’s epistemological point view on artificial intelligence, which are at first glance likely be considered contradictory. For this, characterizing standpoint J. McCarthy, who coined word ‘artificial intelligence’ as scientific realism that A. Turing, provided a crucial thought...

The history of research on childhood socialization in the context of the family is traced through the present century. The 2 major early theories—behaviorism and psychoanalytic theory—are described. These theories declined in mid-century, under the impact of failures to find empirical support. Simple reinforcement theory was seriously weakened by work on developmental psycholinguistics, attachm...