Discussão sobre a concepção de Japiassu a respeito de uma ideologia Skinneriana do reforço

Abstract

The epistemologist Hilton Japiassu, in his book As Paixões da Ciência (1991 ), makes an analysis of Skinner's theory. And he says that there is an ideology of reinforcement in that theory. When he discourses about the ideology, he affirms that Skinner shows a conception whereupon all behaviors are products just of reinforcement. In his critic called by Skinner's ideology of reinforcement, Japiassu affiliates Skinner one thesis which considers that all behaviors are function merely of reinforcement. This affiliation, however comes upon of Skinner's model of selection of behaviors by consequences. It is explained that this model considers the behavioral repertory like a product of the filogenesis, ontogenesis and sociogenesis. In the filogenesis, there is the possibility of innate behaviors, and these do not have origin in the reinforcement. This permits to suggest one refutation to Japiassu's idea that radical behaviorism has one view which considers that the behaviors are determinate just by the reinforcement.