New Ideas in Psychology
New Ideas in Psychology 29 (2011) 147 155. Contents lists available at ScienceDirect New Ideas in Psychology journal homepage: What is behavior? And so what? Raymond M. Bergner Department of Psychology , Illinois State University, Normal, IL 61790-4620, United States a b s t r a c t Keywords: This article addresses a longstanding problem in the eld of Psychology , that of lacking an Behavior adequate explication of what is arguably our central concept as a science of behavior, the Conceptual analysis concept of behavior itself. The three sections comprising the paper are devoted, Pre-empirical respectively, to (a) presenting a conceptual formulation of behavior; (b) discussing this Uni cation formulation by, among other things, addressing objections to it and noting its advantages Integration over Psychology 's currently preferred de nition of behavior as observable activity; and (c).
1. What is behavior? How does Descriptive Psychology (DP) address this question regarding one of psychology’s most fundamental concepts, that of “behavior?”
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