July 5, 2014

July 5, 2014

Written by Maximus Peperkamp, M.S. Verbal Behaviorist

Dear Reader, 

There are currently many reinforcing things happening in this writer’s life. His job has brought him into a new environment, which requires more restrained and which, therefore, is more reinforcing to him. Also, he talked with Dr. Fraley, one of the founders of behaviorology, the natural science of human behavior. Actually, he talked with him twice.  Both phone calls were very positive and Fraley fully understood and affirmed the importance of Sound Verbal Behavior (SVB). He suggested that this author gets in touch with other behaviorologists to elaborate on SVB. 

This kind of recognition is huge for this writer.  By reading Fraley’s papers, he found out that behaviorologists form a relatively small subset of behaviorists whose focus is to establish behaviorology as a separate field, next to biology, physics and chemistry. Behaviorologists don’t want to be any longer part of psychology. In most psychology departments behaviorism is represented as one of the theoretical approaches. As this doesn’t do justice to the science of human behavior and as behaviorists are not very well represented within the field of psychology, behaviorologists have decided that the time has come to establish their own separate field. They do this because they don’t want do concessions to psychology, which adheres to the unscientific view that behavior is caused and controlled by an internal, autonomous agent or self.