期刊名称：REBAC - Revista Brasileira de Análise do Comportamento
出版年度：2016
卷号：11
期号：2
语种：Portuguese
出版社：REBAC - Revista Brasileira de Análise do Comportamento
摘要：Our goal in this paper is to discuss the novelty character and explanatory range of metacontingency in relation to the three-term contingency. Auxiliary concepts, as interlocking behavioral contingencies, aggregate product and receiving system, were also taken into account in evaluating metacontingency’s functionality in comparison with the three-term contin gency. We conclude that, besides Glenn’s and her collaborators relevant contribution to the field, the “metacontingency system” is nothing more than a conceptual rearrangement of the principles present in Skinner’s proposal for the analysis of culture, which can be fashioned solely through the concept of contingency when the conditions of the elements involved in cultural practices are carefully described. Keywords: Selection by consequences; Metacontingency; Contingency; Behavioral analysis of culture; Radical behaviorism.
