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Conclusions about the importance of the predictions (including considering chance as a self
corrective process) and other types of cognitive distortions in the maintenance of gambling
behaviour are discussed.
5055.4 Internet dependence, usage, and interpersonal interaction among undergraduates, Ying
Li, Xuqun You, Shaanxi Normal University, China
The Internet is becoming more and more influential in China, especially for young people. It
impacts on users’ life style, mental health and manner of interpersonal interaction. This study
explores Internet dependence, usage and feature of interpersonal interaction among 576 Chinese
undergraduates. Different motives, Internet usages, manners of online interaction were analyzed
and different patterns of relationships with Internet dependence was showed. Motive of making
new friends and acting roles, playing games and interacting with strangers online was positively
related to Internet dependence. Implications for the study of the psychological influences of the
Internet are discussed.
5056 INVITED SYMPOSIUM
Behaviorism then and now
Convener and Chair: N.K. Innis, Canada
5056.2 Edward C. Tolman’s purposive behaviorism, N.K. Innis, University of Western Ontario,
London, ON, Canada
In 1922, Edward Tolman proposed ‘A new formula for behaviorisn’. Tolman always considered
himself a behaviorist even though his behaviorism, with its purposive and cognitive elements,
differed substantially from the classical Watsonian brand. In this paper I outline how Tolman’s
purposive behaviorism developed and evolved; how it was received; and how it is related to more
recent behaviorist theories.
5056.3 Biological behaviorism, W. Timberlake, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana,
USA
The goal of biological behaviorism is an animal-centered evolutionary approach to behavior that
incorporates the behavior systems approach of ethology and developmental psychbiology, the
experimental approach of manipulation-centered behaviorism, the hypothesis testing of behavioral
ecology, and the mechanisms of neuroscience and development. The current focus of biological
behaviorism is on the viewpoint of the organism (in contrast to the viewpoint of the experimenter),
the development of its perceptual-motor and motivational organization, and the interaction of this
organization with evolutionary and laboratory niches.
5056.5 Emergents and rational behaviorism: The processes of learning, conditioning, and
reinforcement in creativity, D. Rumbaugh, D.A. Washburn, M.J. Beran, Georgia State
University, Atlanta, Georgia, USA
Rational Behaviorism relates cognitive operations to respondents and operants and introduces the
concept of emergents. Brains have been selected to be acutely sensitive to the detection and
storage of predictive relationships. Our analysis of learning heavily weights stimulus contiguity
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