Abstract

TOURINHO, Emmanuel Zagury. Thinking as complex human behavior-commentary on Pérez-Almonacid's article. Acta comport. [online]. 2012, vol.20, n.4, pp. 73-78. ISSN 0188-8145.

This paper discusses Perez-Almonacid's analysis concerning thinking as complex human behavior. It begins examining the interpretations offered to some of Skinner's ideas, and the implications of an alternative view, one of molar analysis of behavior. A key issue pointed out refers to the (new) units of analysis acknowledged as appropriate to a science of behavior. It is argued that the description of such units of analsys still requires an analytical effort. The description may show compatible to Skinner's contributions, as one distinguishes his (broader) explanatory system from his empirical-experimental research program (more restricted to some classes of phenomena).

Keywords : Thinking; complex human behavior; Behavior Analysis.

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