Whereas behaviourism had denied the scientific validity of the concept of " mind ", Chomsky replied that, in fact, the concept of " body " is more problematic.
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In its place, Guite embraced a " rational scientific materialism " coloured by B . F . Skinner's behaviourism and the existentialism of Jean-Paul Sartre and Samuel Beckett.
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Since techniques derived from behavioural psychology tend to be the most effective in altering behaviour, most practitioners consider behaviour modification along with behaviour therapy and applied behaviour analysis to be founded in behaviourism.
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Some psychologists propose that this processing gives rise to particular mental states ( cognitivism ) whilst others envisage a direct path back into the external world in the form of action ( radical behaviourism ).
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While functionalism never became a formal school, it built on structuralism's concern for the anatomy of the mind and led to greater concern over the functions of the mind, and later to behaviourism.
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But then, coming from a more contemporary ( and biologically informed ) perspective in the cognitive sciences, I tend to view the more absolutist approaches to behaviourism as more than a little flawed and antiquated.
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In an essay entitled " The Signi�cance of Signi�cance : The Case for Cognitive Psychology ", Taylor criticized the naturalism he saw distorting the major research program that had replaced B . F . Skinner's behaviourism.
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Armstrong modifies Ryle's Behaviourism by suggesting that the mind's dispositions may be explainable by science in Materialist terms, in the same way that glass's brittleness can be explained in terms of molecular structure.
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Their song lyrics are characterised by themes of dark humour, desperation, tongue-in-cheek self-aggrandisement, criminality, " the drudgery of everyday life, work and office politics ", and human / animal behaviourism.
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In addition to his specific critiques of neo-Darwinism, Koestler was opposed to what he saw as dangerous scientific reductionism more generally, including the behaviourism school of psychology, promoted in particular by B . F . Skinner during the 1930s.
