Table 3.
Philosophical Approaches Included in Courses
| Question | % | n | Mean % Instruction Time (SD) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Which behavioristic philosophical approaches are explicitly taught in your philosophy-oriented curriculum? Please select all that apply. | |||
| Radical behaviorism | 100 | 37 | 72.4 (24.1) |
| Methodological behaviorism | 70.3 | 26 | 14.0 (9.8) |
| Early non-Skinnerian behaviorism (e.g., Watson, Hull, Tolman, Guthrie) | 54.1 | 20 | 10.8 (6.5) |
| Functional contextualism | 32.4 | 12 | 12.5 (7.4) |
| Theoretical behaviorism | 18.9 | 7 | 23.3 (18.3) |
| Interbehaviorism | 16.2 | 6 | 10.6 (7.3) |
| Teleological behaviorism | 10.8 | 4 | 8.3 (3.9) |
| Other | 10.8 | 4 | 49.3 (46.7) |
| Outside of behaviorism, are any philosophical approaches to psychology/behavior science explicitly taught or addressed in your philosophy-oriented curriculum? Please select all that apply. | |||
| Mentalism | 84.8 | 28 | - |
| Structuralism | 60.6 | 20 | - |
| Cognitivism | 60.6 | 20 | - |
| Developmentalism | 45.5 | 15 | - |
| Psychoanalysis | 24.2 | 8 | - |
| Humanistic psychology | 21.2 | 7 | - |
| Other | 18.1 | 6 | - |
| Positive psychology | 6.1 | 2 | - |
All percentage for behavioral topics was out of 37, and all percentages for nonbehavioral topics was out of 33