1) What effect(s) does philosophy have on science? Choose an example from Behavior Analysis and one from some other (mechanistic) area of psychology, and illustrate the differences in methodology that arise from difference in their underlying philosophy. 2) Baum (chapter 3) lists several behavioral approaches to what psychology calls “mind”. Which (if any) work for you? Does it adequately explain mind, or is there anything missing? If so, what? 3) Does an evolutionary, selectionist view (as ours is) really give us answers to why a behavior happens? Or do we actually need to learn the mechanisms involved (as well, or instead)? 4) I have heard social and cognitive psych profs (!!) dismiss behaviorism as only concerned with things they can model with a Skinner Box. With the functional categories of verbal behavior, rule-following, and relational framing, do you think behaviorism has overcome the Skinner Box limitation? Can you think of topics we are not able to look at?
