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On privacy, causes, and contingencies.

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    Radical behaviorism uniquely includes private events in behavior explanations. These internal experiences function similarly to public events within reinforcement principles, linking them to observable actions.

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    Area of Science:

    • Behavioral Psychology
    • Philosophy of Mind

    Background:

    • Distinguishing radical behaviorism from methodological behaviorism.
    • Understanding the role of private events in behavior analysis.

    Purpose of the Study:

    • To explain how radical behaviorism incorporates private events into causal explanations.
    • To define the functional significance of private phenomena within behaviorism.

    Main Methods:

    • Operational definition of private events within the three-term contingency.
    • Analysis of private events as discriminative stimuli, responses, or reinforcers.

    Main Results:

    • Radical behaviorism accommodates private events by analyzing their discriminative, response, or reinforcing functions.
    • The functional significance of private events is established through their link to prior public events.

    Conclusions:

    • Radical behaviorism provides a framework for understanding private events within a scientific behavioral analysis.
    • Private events are integrated into behavioral explanations by their functional relationships with environmental and public events.