1. Radical Behaviorism as a Philosophy of Science
What Are the Domains of Behavior Analysis?
Radical Behaviorism as the Philosophy of Science
Underlying Behavior Analysis
The Sense of "Radical" in Radical Behaviorism
Summary
2. History of Behaviorism and Behavior Analysis: 1800-1930
Psychology and the Science of the "Mental"
Emerging Concerns with Mental Experience as a Subject Matter
and Introspection as a Method
The Contribution of Post-Darwinian Comparative Psychology:
"Animal Psychology"
The Contribution of Reflexology
The First Phase of the Behavioral Movement:
Classical S - R Behaviorism
Section 1: The Foundations of Radical Behaviorism
3. History of Behaviorism and Behavior Analysis: 1930-1980
The Second Phase of the Behavioral Movement:
Mediational S - O - R Behaviorism
Theoretical Terms as Intervening Variables or Hypothetical
Constructs?
Recapitulation
The Contributions of B. F. Skinner
Two Ways of Representing the Relation Between Radical Behaviorism
and Other Forms of Psychology
4. Behavior as a Subject Matter in Its Own Right
Etymology of "Behavior"
Some Representative Definitions of Behavior
Issues Raised By the Above Definitions
Analysis of the Issues
The Relations Between Behavior Analysis and Neuroscience
Summary and Conclusions: The Complementarity of Behavior
Analysis and Behavioral Neuroscience
5. Categories of Behavior
Stimulus Presentations and Innate Behavior
Signaling Operations, Consequential Operations,
and Learned Behavior
Conditioned Respondent Behavior
Assessing Conditioned Respondent Functional Relations
Operant Behavior
Sources of Operant Behavior
Some Further Comments on Understanding When Behavior is
Operant Behavior
Stimulus Control
Molar and Molecular Analyses of Behavior
Summary
6. Consequences and Concepts in the Analysis of Behavior
To Reinforce: The Root Term and Its Cognates
To Punish: The Root Term and Its Cognates
Overview of Reinforcement and Punishment
Other Combinations and Categories Involving Consequences
Is the Definition of Reinforcement Circular?
Self-Reinforcement?
Extinction
Superstition
Motivative Operations
Summary
7. Selection by Consequences
Selection by Consequences: Cycles of Variation, Interaction,
and Differential Replication
Natural Selection
"Selection For" versus "Selection Of"
Review
The Evolution of Behavior: Selection By Consequences as a
Causal Mode
Some Further Considerations Regarding Selection of Behavior
By Its Consequences
Contingencies of Survival
Selection by Consequences: Darwinian or Lamarckian?
More on Cultural Selection
Summary and Conclusions
Section Two: The Realization of the Radical Behaviorist Program
8. Verbal Behavior 1: Elementary Verbal Relations
The Definition of Verbal Behavior
Elements of a Behavioral Approach to Verbal Behavior
Differences Between a "Traditional" Account and That of
Radical Behaviorism
Differences Between Verbal and Nonverbal Behavior
Extensions
Classification System for Elementary Verbal Relations
Autoclitic Activity
Summary and Conclusions
9. Verbal Behavior 2: Complex Verbal Relations
Complex Verbal Relations: Derived Relational Responding
The Conditional Discrimination Procedure and Representative
Research
Verbal Regulation
Rules: What They Are, and What They Aren't
Instructions
Awareness
Self-Reporting
Summary and Conclusions
10. Private Events
J. B. Watson on Implicit Stimuli and Responses
B. F. Skinner and Private Events
Radical Behaviorism: Feelings and Sensed Conditions of the Body
Covert Operant Activity
Sensations and Traditional Experimental Psychology
Radical Behaviorism and the Charge of the "Empty Organism"
11. Methods in a Science of Behavior
The Nature of Science and Scientific Research
A Behavior-Analytic Assessment of Traditional Research Methods
Behavior-Analytic Research Methods
12. Scientific Verbal Behavior: Theories
The Traditional View
Theories as Verbal Behavior
Multiple Control
Theories: Instrumentalism or Realism?
Summary and Conclusions
13. Scientific Verbal Behavior: Explanations
Two Prominent Explanatory Strategies in Traditional
Neobehaviorism
The Relation Among Explanation, Description, and Theory in
Behavior Analysis
Causal Explanation, Prediction, and Description
The Causal Explanation of Behavior
Epistemological Dualism and Other Mischievous Sources of
Control over the Verbal Behavior of the Scientist
Interpretation
Summary and Conclusions
Section III: Comparison and Contrast with Alternate Viewpoints
14. Opposition to Mentalism
A Definition of Mentalism
Examples of Mentalism
Sources of Control Over Mentalistic Talk
The Historical Origin of Mentalism
Summary and Conclusions: Behavior-Analytic Objections to
Mentalism
15. The Challenge of Cognitive Psychology
The Nature of Cognitive Systems
Precursors
Some Common Assumptions About the Relation Between
Behaviorism and Cognitive Psychology
Reconsidering the Relation
The Nature of the Differences
Are Behaviorism and Cognitive Psychology Complementary?
Summary and Conclusions
16. The Challenge of Psycholinguistics
Psycholinguistics and Language
The Charge That Sequential Processes Cannot Adequately
Explain Language
A Radical Behaviorist Reply to a Charge Based on Sequential
Analyses and Mediation
The Charge That Direct Interaction With the Environment Cannot
Adequately Explain the Development of Such Linguistic
Processesas Grammar and Syntax
A Radical Behaviorist Reply to the Charge That Direct Interaction
With the Environment Cannot Adequately Explain the
Development of Such Linguistic Processes as Grammar
and Syntax
Chomsky versus Behavior Analysis
Summary and Conclusions
17. Radical Behaviorism and Traditional Philosophical Issues-1
Forms of Philosophical Psychology Carrying the Designation
"Behaviorism"
Logical Behaviorism
Conceptual Analysis
Metaphysical Behaviorism
Methodological Behaviorism
Methodological Behaviorism and the Ontological Status of the
"Mental"
Pragmatism
Pragmatism and Scientific Verbal Behavior
18. Radical Behaviorism and Traditional Philosophical Issues-2
Mind and Body
Radical Behaviorist Perspective on the Mind-Body Problem and
Philosophy of Mind
An Interpretation of Dispositional Approaches From the Standpoint of
Radical Behaviorism
Mechanistic Analyses and Intentionality
Intensionality
Summary and Conclusions
Section IV: Conclusion
19. Radical Behaviorism as Epistemology
The Definition of Genuine Behaviorism
Radical Behaviorism as an Epistemology
