Interbehaviorism, also called interbehavioral psychology, is a naturalistic system within psychology developed by American psychologist J. R. Kantor. The school treats behavior as arising from the ongoing interaction between an organism and its surrounding field of stimuli, events and settings, rather than locating the causes of behavior inside the organism alone or in external stimuli alone. Kantor introduced the approach as a corrective to what he saw as lingering mentalistic assumptions in mainstream psychology, and in his 1936 book An Objective Psychology of Grammar he became the first psychologist to use the term psycholinguistics.
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Central QuestionHow can a psychological event be understood as the interdependence of all factors in the field between organism and environment, rather than being reduced to a lineal chain of stimulus and response? 1 Founded Year Connections
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Source Wikipedia: J. R. Kantor
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Wikimedia FoundationInterbehaviorism section, renaming of the system
Kantor originally named his system Organismic Psychology, but around the time of the publication of the first volume of his Principles of Psychology (Kantor, 1924), he had already renamed it to interbehavioral psychology.
Interbehaviorism section, interbehavioral field formula
For Kantor, because the interaction between organism and environment is continuous in time this event should be analyzed in terms of all of its interdependent components.
In Branch: Behavioral Psychology, Lead
Jacob Robert "J.R." Kantor (August 8, 1888, Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, 1984, Chicago, Illinois) was a prominent American psychologist who pioneered a naturalistic system in psychology called interbehavioral psychology or interbehaviorism.
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