Talk:Behaviour therapy

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[edit] internal mental states ?

Behaviorism, at least the kind that is often linked to BT, is not against internal mental states. I speak here specifically to SKinner's Radical Behaviorism. Methodological behaviorism did reject looking within, but it also relied on the classical conditioning/pavlovian model of behavior change. Skinner's position accepts thinking, emotions, 'the world within the skin', and so on. See rule governed behavior, or even Skinner's 1957 work Verbal Behavior for discussions of verbal behavior internal and external (the autoclitic process necessitates an internal listener who is modifying verbal behavior nearly instantaneously). Michaelrayw2 (talk) 16:52, 4 February 2008 (UTC)