[tips] Re: Non-biological behavior?!! (was Re: what would Skinner say?)

2007-01-20 Thread msylvester
Original Message From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: tips@acsun.frostburg.edu Subject: RE: [tips] Re: Non-biological behavior?!! (was Re: what would Skinner say?) Date: Sat, 20 Jan 2007 14:27:59 -0600 (CST) >If I may add to this discussion, Olds, et.al. discovered pleasure >cente

[tips] Re: Non-biological behavior?!! (was Re: what would Skinner say?)

2007-01-20 Thread Joan Warmbold
; Cheers, > > Karl W. > > -Original Message- > From: Michael Scoles [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Friday, January 19, 2007 9:06 PM > To: Teaching in the Psychological Sciences (TIPS) > Subject: [tips] Re: Non-biological behavior?!! (was Re: what would > Skinner s

[tips] Re: Non-biological behavior?!! (was Re: what would Skinner say?)

2007-01-20 Thread Paul Brandon
At 8:06 PM -0600 1/19/07, Michael Scoles wrote: I'll take a shot. Maybe the other Michaels S. was making a distinction (intentionally or not) between proximate and distal causes? Maybe, but there are still problems. We're talking about two different distinctions. An evolutionary cause of behav

[tips] Re: Non-biological behavior?!! (was Re: what would Skinner say?)

2007-01-19 Thread Michael Scoles
was thinking of behaviors that don't have obvious links to the satisfaction of basic biological needs??? Cheers, Karl W. -Original Message- From: Michael Scoles [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, January 19, 2007 9:06 PM To: Teaching in the Psychological Sciences (TIPS) Subjec

[tips] Re: Non-biological behavior?!! (was Re: what would Skinner say?)

2007-01-19 Thread Rick Stevens
wrote: Original Message From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: tips@acsun.frostburg.edu Subject: RE: [tips] Re: Non-biological behavior?!! (was Re: what would Skinner say?) Date: Fri, 19 Jan 2007 14:21:35 -0600 > >On Jan 19, 2007, at 11:48 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >>>> PAUL K. B

[tips] Re: Non-biological behavior?!! (was Re: what would Skinner say?)

2007-01-19 Thread Wuensch, Karl L
sic biological needs??? Cheers, Karl W. -Original Message- From: Michael Scoles [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, January 19, 2007 9:06 PM To: Teaching in the Psychological Sciences (TIPS) Subject: [tips] Re: Non-biological behavior?!! (was Re: what would Skinner say?) I'l

[tips] Re: Non-biological behavior?!! (was Re: what would Skinner say?)

2007-01-19 Thread Michael Scoles
I'll take a shot. Maybe the other Michaels S. was making a distinction (intentionally or not) between proximate and distal causes? Michael T. Scoles, Ph.D. Associate Professor of Psychology & Counseling University of Central Arkansas Conway, AR 72035 501-450-5418 >>> "Shearon, Tim" <[EMAIL PR

[tips] Re: Non-biological behavior?!! (was Re: what would Skinner say?)

2007-01-19 Thread Shearon, Tim
Michael Sylvester said: "Non-biological behavior is behavior that does not have a biological basis." Michael- Make mine a bourbon, please. :) What on earth, pray tell, is "behavior that does not have a biological basis". Tim --- To make changes to your subscription go to: http://acsun.frostburg.

[tips] Re: Non-biological behavior?!! (was Re: what would Skinner say?)

2007-01-19 Thread Paul Brandon
At 8:52 PM + 1/19/07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >What on earth is non-biological, or 'non-biologically based' behavior? (Presuming, in this context, the topic is the behavior of organisms. So, of course, the question relates to behavior other than the behavior of metals, asteroids, air

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2007-01-19 Thread msylvester
Original Message From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: tips@acsun.frostburg.edu Subject: RE: [tips] Re: Non-biological behavior?!! (was Re: what would Skinner say?) Date: Fri, 19 Jan 2007 14:21:35 -0600 > >On Jan 19, 2007, at 11:48 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >>>>

[tips] Re: Non-biological behavior?!! (was Re: what would Skinner say?)

2007-01-19 Thread Peter Harzem
On Jan 19, 2007, at 11:48 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: PAUL K. BRANDON wrote: Operant behavior IS biological in nature (Skinner always considered psychology to be the subfield of biology that studied the behavior of... So non-biologically based behavior is not operant behavior.I will hav