Details

Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Parga, Maria Xesus Frojan
• Gordillo, Miguel Nunez de Prado
• Verdu, Ricardo de Pascual

Titel

Cognitive techniques and language: A return to behavioral origins

Ist Teil von

• Psicothema, 2017-08, Vol.29 (3), p.352-357

Ort / Verlag

Spain: Colegio Oficial De Psicologos Del Principado De Asturias

Erscheinungsjahr

2017

Quelle

MEDLINE

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• the main purpose of this study is to offer an alternative explanatory account of the functioning of cognitive techniques that is based on the principles of associative learning and highlights their verbal nature. The traditional accounts are questioned and analyzed in the light of the situation of psychology in the 1970s. conceptual analysis is employed to revise the concepts of language, cognition and behavior. Several operant- and Pavlovian-based approaches to these phenomena are presented, while particular emphasis is given to Mowrer's (1954) approach and Ryle (1949) and Wittgenstein's (1953) philosophical contributions to the field. several logical problems are found in regard to the theoretical foundations of cognitive techniques. A combination of both operant and Pavlovian paradigms based on the above-mentioned approaches is offered as an alternative explanatory account of cognitive techniques. This new approach could overcome the conceptual fragilities of the cognitive standpoint and its dependence upon constructs of dubious logical and scientific validity.