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IMAGERY AND ABSTRACT PROBLEM SOLVING.
Abstract
It has been asserted that it is logically impossible to be interested in imagery and claim a behavioral orienta- tion (Locke, 1971). Locke's criticism is partly directed at methodological behaviorism (Paivio, 1975; Skinner, 1974) which holds that events must be reportable by at least two people to be admissible for scientific study. Since all imaginal events are reportable by only one person at best, they are ruled out of scientific study on methodological grounds. However, Paivio (1975), a noted imagery researcher, believes that imagery can be studied, at least inferentially, by procedures in accordance with methodological behaviorism. Locke's criticism is also directed at another behavior- ism variously called Watsonian or radical behaviorism (Skinner, 1974). This position rejects the kind of mind body dualism enunciated by Descartes in Meditationes de prima philosophia.
Subject Area
Experimental psychology|Psychology
Recommended Citation
ROBB, HAROLD BUCHANAN, "IMAGERY AND ABSTRACT PROBLEM SOLVING." (1978). ETD collection for University of Nebraska-Lincoln. AAI7900348.
https://digitalcommons.unl.edu/dissertations/AAI7900348