Abstract
The two non-renunciable principles of functional analysis of behavior and radical behaviorism. The aim of this work is to place emphasis on and discuss what we consider to be B. F Skinner's two principal and essential contributions to psychology. The first is his conception of radical behaviorism, which we understand as specifically different from and critical toward the remaining behaviorisms. That which is specific to radical behaviorism consists of having verified the effectiveness of the pragmatic circularity between the investigated behavior (operant conditioned behavior) and the behavior of investigating (functional analysis of behavior) and, stemming from this verification, the recognition of the superfluousness of all the methodological-theoretical pretenses of the remaining behaviorisms, particularly, the methodological neobehaviorisms. The second contribution consists of the acknowledgement, as we propose in view of the practice of functional analysis of operant behavior, that there is only one kind of conditioning, operant conditioning, of which the so-called classic conditioning would only be an internal effect, in any case functionally indispensable. Our present interpretation of operant functional analysis depends on the conception we propose of the co-present -rather than spatial-contiguous- texture of operant behavior.
