How is Physiology Relevant to Behavior Analysis?

Overview

Journal Behav Anal

Specialty Psychiatry

Date 2012 Apr 6

PMID 22478240

Citations 6

Authors

H W Reese

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Abstract

Physiology is an important biological science; but behavior analysis is not a biological science, and behavior analysts can safely ignore biological processes. However, ignoring products of biological processes might be a serious mistake. The important products include behavior, instinctive drift, behavior potentials, hunger, and many developmental milestones and events. Physiology deals with the sources of such products; behavior analysis can deal with how the products affect behavior, which can be understood without understanding their sources.

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