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  1. Sep 2018
  2. newclasses.nyu.edu newclasses.nyu.edu
    1. Forexample,theyreportthatmoredatahasbeencollectedaboutpolitical/religiousactivitiesthanabouteating/sleepingactivities,becausethepolitical/religiousactivitiesaremoreinterestingtoresearchersthaneating/sleepingactivities;yet,theamountoftimetheculturalmembersspentonpolitical/religiousactivitieswaslessthan3%,whiletheamountoftimetheyspenteating/sleepingwasgreaterthan60%.

      This is such an interesting point. Observations can be accurate, but still misleading, if they aren't representative of the importance or frequency of activities.

    1. On the other hand, you had the situated view, which helped establish a contextu-alized science for learning, in which learning at the minimum required investigating the social and cultural contexts of learning, and at the maximum treated learning as inherently a phenomenon not in the head but in the relationships between person and their context.
    2. pseudo-science

      Is this because behaviorists believed that you can't scientifically observe and measure a mental event with the kind of rigor as you could a behavior?

    3. epiphenomena

      A Mind-Body philosophy position that mental events are viewed as completely dependent on physical functions and, as such, have no independent existence or causal efficacy; it is a mere appearance.

      So, a strict behaviorist might doubt that thoughts even exist, and that they are just products or "appearances" of a physical behavior or condition.