creators_name: Jorion, Paul
type: preprint
datestamp: 1999-06-27
lastmod: 2011-03-11 08:53:43
metadata_visibility: show
title: A methodological behaviourist model for imitation
subjects: bio-ani-behav
subjects: cog-psy
full_text_status: public
keywords: imitation, emotion, gradient, behaviorism
abstract: 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
date_type: published
refereed: TRUE
citation:   Jorion, Paul  (1998) A methodological behaviourist model for imitation.  [Preprint]     
document_url: http://cogprints.org/182/1/Byrne.html