Requiem for the American Dream

[Skybird]

Originally Posted by Rockstar

Behaviorism, is that akin too causation?

Cant sort in that term, English Wikipedia sounds like something new/strange to me, or better a variety of different things in different branches. Don'T know a German term correctly translating it.



Behaviorism focusse son highlight terms like conditioning, black-box paradigmn, conditioned and unconditioned stimuli, reflexology, learning theory, sharpening of behaviour. The name related to it and having been extremely influential, is Skinner. What in Germany is called Verhaltenstherapie, owes heavily to it (Konfrontierung, etc)



Its not all bad and wrong, imo, well, some is, but it is extremely tunnel-eyed, it ignores too much. Some things stemming from it however have found dramagically overwhelming empirical support.



I have become pragmatic regarding it. I picked what seems to work, and left out what does not make sense or is basing on uncomplete conceptions. I do not like the options for abuse that it offers.



For starters:


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Behaviorism