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Discussion Post: Team
Part A
I. Select a current ‘hot button' issue - immigration, gun control, climate change, etc.
II. What are the components of this issue on which individuals or groups disagree?
III. Describe the source of these disagreements from a radical behaviorism perspective. Specifically examine these opposing perspectives in terms of Operant Behavior and verbal behavior.
IV. Ground your interpretation in the philosophical assumptions underlying the science of behavior analysis (e.g., selectionism, determinism, empiricism, parsimony, pragmatism).
Part B
In About Behaviorism, Chapter 7, Skinner approaches Thinking and Choice from a behaviorist perspective. Discuss these terms from a common language, colloquial, every-day perspective. As a behaviorist, how would you describe Thinking and Choice to a colleague or parent of a client not familiar with Behaviorism?