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Neorealism : unifying cognition and environment

APA Proofs ; Recent trends in psychology have revealed increasing discontent toward representational explanations of behavior. However, whether these trends have the conceptual resources to address the full range of cognitive phenomena remains unclear. Here, I defend neorealism (Holt, 1914) as the missing philosophical link between radically embodied cognitive science and a more encompassing psychology. Neorea...

Hamsters’ (mesocricetus auratus) memory in a radial maze analog : the role of s...

The golden hamster’s (Mesocricetus auratus) performance on radial maze tasks has not been studied a lot. Here we report the results of a spatial memory task that involved eight food stations equidistant from the center of a circular platform. Each of six male hamsters depleted the food stations along successive choices. After each choice and a 5-s retention delay, the hamster was brought back to the center of t...

Operant variability : procedures and processes

Associationism

Uncorreted proof ; Defines "associationism" and discusses historical and contemporary issues with associationist explanations

Metaphor and truth : a review of representation reconsidered by W. M. Ramsey

William M. Ramsey’s Representation Reconsidered (Cambridge University Press, New York, 2007) is a critical evaluation of the use of representational notions in cognitive science. Ramsey distinguishes different types of representational posits and argues that only one of them, the sort of structured representation that is assumed in the computational theory of mind, remains true to representationalism. Other use...

Belief modification in cognitive therapy

One of the central assumptions of cognitive therapy is that psychological disorders are caused, at least in part, by dysfunctional beliefs. One of the goals of therapy is therefore to modify these beliefs or to replace them by more adaptive ones. Among other treatments, this cognitive strategy has proved clinically successful in a number of cases. The efficacy of belief modification in cognitive therapy raises ...

Children's competition in a natural setting : evidence for the ideal free distr...

Article in press ; Little is known of the foraging abilities of children in modern cultures, especially when children forage in groups. Here we present a test of optimal foraging theory in groups of street children working for money. The children we observed were selling bottles of water to drivers distributed in two lanes at a crossroad of Istanbul, Turkey. As predicted by the ideal free distribution (a model...

Holt's realism : new reasons for behavior analysis

Behavior analysts and ecological psychologists may be more aware than before of the commonalities between their respective approaches (Costall, 1984; Morris, 2009). It is time for behavior analysis to come back to its realist roots (O’Neil, 1968) and face the hard issue of perception