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- Title
HOW CLOSE TO REAL CAN A NON-REAL CYBERRAT BEHAVE?
- Authors
Phelps, Brady
- Abstract
The extent to which a virtual "CyberRat" is a valid stand-in for a live, behaving rat is addressed in terms of various versions of a Turing test. The CyberRat program, for the most part, is a valid substitute for a living, behaving subject as a means of learning operant principles of behavior change, if no actual behaving animal can be used. The arguments for the CyberRat's means of modeling behavior change through the philosophy of interbehaviorism and interbehavioral systems analysis are evaluated relative to the positions of Skinner's behavior analysis. Finally, the stances of behavior analysis and interbehaviorism are discussed in relation to other psychological schools of thought
- Subjects
LABORATORY rats; TURING test; BEHAVIOR modification; OPERANT behavior; INTERBEHAVIORAL psychology
- Publication
Behavior & Philosophy, 2011, Vol 39/40, p309
- ISSN
1053-8348
- Publication type
Article