 All right, folks First off I have to apologize I kind of got a wee bit ahead of myself in the last video if you're watching these in order if you're not watching them in order Then that makes no sense Which is totally fine because you're probably used to that by now because we're just a little bit weird anyway, so really what I'm trying to get at now is We're really trying to go back into Skinner's radical behaviors Because I was really talking about experimental analysis of behavior in the previous video But what I really wanted to do is I just get so damn excited about these topics and they all connect together And I can't stop I just have to keep talking so we're gonna refocus a little bit and talk about Skinner's radical behaviorism here and We're gonna we're gonna kind of go over what some of those details are And what we're doing here is an example of what Skinner learned, but anyway that they'll let you figure out why that was funny So Radical behaviorism okay first off during the time that Skinner was writing about his stuff He was he'd had enough of hypothetical constructs in this whole thing called mentalism whoo Mentalism would be how do I know to do what I do right? How do I know to walk down this path and do this particular thing? And make these sorts of decisions and blah blah blah and all this fun stuff what must be knowledge, right? Knowledge is an explanatory fiction. It's a hypothetical construct. It doesn't explain anything It doesn't add anything new to our understanding of what's happening in this particular context So an explanatory fiction, right? So if you're into the mentalism field or if you believe or think like a mental is a mentalist What you will think is that using a term of an inner some type of interstate or something like that Will then explain behavior. They're intelligent. He has this knowledge He had this feeling that feeling and cause this and that and the other thing and all these different stuff now Most of what I'm saying is probably gonna be like familiar to you because it feels right The problem is the Skinner didn't buy it. He didn't buy hypothetical constructs He didn't think that that added any extra level of explanation To the understanding of behavior. So he went he killed it. He said, oh, we're gonna take it out We're gonna take that stuff out now where it's different I've kind of got to the point of describing to you methodological behaviors, which is where anything that's not observable Doesn't count. We're not gonna study it in science. Okay, so I've kind of explained some of that already That wasn't really my core intention. I really wanted to get into radical behaviorism, but methodological behaviorism is about that understanding That that we don't study anything that we can't directly observe And we throw out things like thoughts and all that stuff and feelings and anything that's inside the head and thinking and all That stuff while Skinner didn't buy it He didn't buy methodological behaviorism either and you're probably thinking that what the heck Skinner didn't buy it Yes, yes, he did folks do your history read a little bit figure out that Skinner talked about all of these wonderful things that were called thinking Feeling emoting all that stuff that goes on inside the organism Skinner didn't disagree that it was there What he did differently was he called it behavior He made that stuff into a studyable scientific Topic that was what was cool. That was what was radical Took away the hypothetical constructs, which is similar to right methodological behaviorism, right? And then the end result was that he added back the stuff that was hard to see He's just saying Skinner's literally just saying that just because I'm the only one that can observe it doesn't make it less valuable It just makes it hard to confirm that other people see it too. It's still behavior though So we treat it as behavior in its own right. It still has to be explained thinking has to be explained feeling has to be explained right Emoting having my emotions right that has to be explained all of this has to be explained to have a thoroughgoing Understanding of behavior Skinner recognized that and that's why he created his own right. That's one of the reasons Anyway, that's one of the reasons he created his own thing. No explanatory fictions. No hypothetical constructs We're gonna reject methodological behaviorism and we're gonna focus on just understanding the environment's relation with behavior That's it. That's radical behaviors in a nutshell There's lots of great books about it and I'm sure you can read more you can probably pick apart some of the things that I said Oh, well, go ahead engage me down here engage Brad down here We'll chit chat with you in the comment section ask some questions I probably got a lot more to say about the topic. Anyway, we'll talk to you again. See you