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Higher-order behavior classes: contingencies, beliefs, and verbal behavior

A C Catania1

  • 1Department of Psychology, University of Maryland, Baltimore County 21228-5398, USA.

Journal of Behavior Therapy and Experimental Psychiatry
|September 1, 1995
PubMed
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This study reviews behavior analytic concepts, finding Albert Bandura

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Area of Science:

  • Behavioral science
  • Psychology
  • Behavior analysis

Background:

  • Review of reinforcement and higher-order behavior classes.
  • Application to self-reinforcement, self-efficacy, private events, and verbal behavior.
  • Examination of Albert Bandura's criticisms of behavior analytic thought.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To analyze Bandura's criticisms of behavior analytic concepts.
  • To clarify misunderstandings regarding reinforcement, self-efficacy, and private events.
  • To address the role of verbal behavior in human action.

Main Methods:

  • Conceptual analysis of reinforcement and higher-order behavior.
  • Application of these concepts to specific psychological phenomena.
  • Critique of Bandura's arguments from a behavior analytic perspective.

Main Results:

  • Bandura's criticisms stem from misunderstandings of theories vs. phenomena and ontogenic selection.
  • These criticisms have been previously refuted.
  • Bandura's persistent arguments are interpreted as a form of creationism in behavioral science.

Conclusions:

  • Bandura's critiques of behavior analysis are based on fundamental misunderstandings.
  • Behavior analytic principles adequately account for complex human behaviors.
  • A re-evaluation of Bandura's critiques is necessary from a behavior analytic standpoint.

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