title: A methodological behaviourist model for imitation
creator: Jorion, Paul
subject: Animal Behavior
subject: Cognitive Psychology
description: Byrne & Russon's text displays all the difficulties involved in approaching imitation in a non- methodological behaviourist perspective. Their conceptual apparatus is grounded in a mix of introspection and folk psychology. Their distinction between action level and program level imitation falters on goal imputation for sequential acts. An alternative gradient descent model is propounded: behaviour can be modelled as a frustration/satisfaction gradient descent within the animal's potentiality-space as defined by knowledge, inventiveness and surrounding universe.
date: 1998
type: Preprint
type: PeerReviewed
format: text/html
identifier: http://cogprints.org/182/1/Byrne.html
identifier:   Jorion, Paul  (1998) A methodological behaviourist model for imitation.  [Preprint]     
relation: http://cogprints.org/182/