Fundamentals of Interbehavioral Psychology

Abstract

Interbehavioral psychology differs in important ways from both behaviorism and mentalism and provides a neglected alternative to these two psychologies, one that surmounts many of the problems that they incur. It derives from observation of objects and events and their relationships, these comprising an interbehavioral field. An analysis of the events involved in such interactions as imagining, thinking, language, attending, perceiving, voluntary and volitional conduct, and habit, all of which are joint functions of field factors, are briefly treated here. Because interbehaviorism is field centered rather than organism centered it provides important guidelines for research and theory as well as such applied problems as psychotherapy and social responsibility.