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The basic questions: What is reinforced? What is selected?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  19 March 2003

Patrick Grim
Patrick Grim
Affiliation:
Group for Logic and Formal Semantics, Department of Philosophy, State University of New York at Stony Brook, Stony Brook, NY 11794-3750 pgrim@notes.cc.sunyb.edu http://www.sunysb.edu/philosophy/new/faculty/grim.html
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Abstract

Any behavior belongs to innumerable overlapping types. Any adequate theory of emergence and retention of behavior, whether psychological or biological, must give us not only a general mechanism – reinforcement or selection, for example – but a reason why that mechanism applies to a particular behavior in terms of one of its types rather than others. Why is it as this type that the behavior is reinforced or selected?

Type
Brief Report
Information
Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 25 , Issue 2 , April 2002 , pp. 261
Copyright
© 2002 Cambridge University Press

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