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Operant learning and selectionism: Risks and benefits of seeking interdisciplinary parallels

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  06 November 2001

Richard W. Malott
Richard W. Malott
Affiliation:
Behavior Analysis Program, Department of Psychology, Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, MI 49008 [email protected] www.vms.cc.wmich.edu/~malott/index.html
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Abstract

Seeking parallels among disciplines can have both risks and benefits. Finding parallels may be a vacuous exercise in categorization, generating no new insights. And pointing to analogous functions may cause us to treat them as homologous. Hull et al. have provided a basis for the generation of insights in different selectionist areas, without confusing analogy with homology.

Type
Brief Report
Information
Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 24 , Issue 3 , June 2001 , pp. 544
Copyright
© 2001 Cambridge University Press

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