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Behavioral Text and Psychological Context: On Pragmatic Verbal Behavior Analysis

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Although it is generally accepted that psychology is the study of behavior, specifications of the meaning of behavior vary considerably. To record an action potential in a cell is different from observing an organism in its environment. General functional principles can be formulated in both cases and be predictive of further occurrences of the phenomena under study. Basic mechanisms discovered in simplified preparations or simple organisms could operate also at more complex levels of organization. This does not, however, make data relevant, interpretable, or applicable.

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  1. Psychophysiology Unit, Faculty of Medicine, University of Chile, PO Box 70055 - D, Santiago 7, Chile

    Fernando Lolas

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  1. Psychiatric Consultation and Liaison Division, Department of Psychiatry and Human Behavior, University of California, 92717, Irvine, CA, USA

    Louis A. Gottschalk M.D., Ph.D. (Professor of Psychiatry and Director) (Professor of Psychiatry and Director)

  2. Psychophysiology Unit, Faculty of Medicine, University of Chile, P.O. Box 70055, Santiago 7, Chile

    Fernando Lolas M. D. (Associate Professor) (Associate Professor)

  3. Department of Psychology, University of Wollongong, P.O. Box 1144, 2500, Wollongong, N.S.W., Australia

    Linda Louise Viney (Associate Professor) (Associate Professor)

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Lolas, F. (1986). Behavioral Text and Psychological Context: On Pragmatic Verbal Behavior Analysis. In: Gottschalk, L.A., Lolas, F., Viney, L.L. (eds) Content Analysis of Verbal Behavior. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-71085-8_2

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