Mind is back in control of pavlovian and skinnerian responses: was it ever away?
Introspections, anecdotes, mnemonics, and observations of large animals like us can only be adequately described in the mapping language of the mind/brain delineated by renaissance philosophers--time, space, sensations and reflections. But modern behaviorists, confused by this richness, sought clarification by adhering strictly to narrow paradigms, excluding the mind/brain, and inventing recondite neologisms. The cognitive map underground survived the behavioral storms. And psychology, the study of the mind/brain in all its wonders, is flourishing once again in respectability.
Garcia
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Department of Psychology, University of California, Los Angeles, USA.
D000818:Animals; D003071:Cognition; D003214:Conditioning, Classical; D003216:Conditioning, Operant; D006801:Humans; D007389:Internal-External Control; D011939:Mental Recall; D010465:Perception; D010684:Philosophy; D012153:Retention, Psychology; D012649:Self Concept