Conditional self, and self metabehavior: investigative possibilities.

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Relationships between three behaviorist concepts related to selfawareness are introduced: conditional self-discrimination (the most general concept), metabehavior (conditional discrimination of the one’s own behavior) and autoclitics (verbal metabehavior). Acquisition and transference of conditional self-discrimination have been shown experimentally by the author in a research series including animals (pigeons) and nonverbal human beings (autists participants). The results of these experiments lead to propose the dissociation between self-awareness and language, more exactly the possibility of nonverbal self-awareness. Finally, possibilities of research on conditional self-discrimination and metabehavior are offered, as much in the basic field as in the applied one.

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  • Andrés M. Pérez-Acosta, Universidad del Rosario

    Psicólogo, Universidad Nacional. Doctor en Psicología, Universidad de Sevilla (España). Programa de Psicología, Facultad de Medicina, Universidad del Rosario, Bogotá (Colombia).

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Conditional self, and self metabehavior: investigative possibilities. (2011). Psicología desde El Caribe, 103-121. https://rcientificas.uninorte.edu.co/psicologia/article/view/2001