A theoretical basis of human behavior / by Albert Paul Weiss.

  • Weiss, Albert Paul, 1879-1931.
Date:
1925
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Credit: A theoretical basis of human behavior / by Albert Paul Weiss. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    CHAPTER IX THE BIOSOCIAL RESPONSES THE SENSORI-MOTOR COMPONENT IN THE BIOSOCIAL RESPONSES The Recording Response—The Discriminative Re¬ sponse—The Discrimination—The Test for Discrim¬ ination—Elementary Discriminations—The Serial Response—The Relational Response—Generaliza¬ tion and Abstraction—The Self. By the term biosocial response I have designated those movements or motor effects which establish the individual’s co-operative status in the social organi¬ zation to which he belongs. Speaking simply, the biosocial response is the group of movements or the effects of these movements that other individuals observe and may classify into educational, vocational, administrative, recreational, and personal forms of behavior. The systematic classification of these ac¬ tivities is properly the problem of the social sciences and behavioristic psychology participates in this prob¬ lem by investigating the ontogenetic and phylo¬ genetic development of the responses as the result of biosocial stimulating conditions acting upon speci¬ fic types of sensori-motor organization. The problem of behaviorism is in part that of es¬ tablishing the fundamental response categories that