Can Operant conditioning cope with human behavior?

Abstract

The manners in whidt Operant Conditioningtheory Itas ¿ncorporated tite paradigntatic assutnptions of Cartesjtzn Mcc/sanies cd dualistic assutnptions underlying its phiosophy are anal ysed. Tite Refle,c paradigns has been transfered to Psychology through Biolog’g. titad it has gttided theoretical and empirieal analyses of behavior. The slsortcomings of such a paradignt are analysed ita relat ion to animal and human behavior.