TY - GEN ID - cogprints182 UR - http://cogprints.org/182/ A1 - Jorion, Paul TI - A methodological behaviourist model for imitation Y1 - 1998/// N2 - Byrne & Russon's text displays all the difficulties involved in approaching imitation in a non- methodological behaviourist perspective. Their conceptual apparatus is grounded in a mix of introspection and folk psychology. Their distinction between action level and program level imitation falters on goal imputation for sequential acts. An alternative gradient descent model is propounded: behaviour can be modelled as a frustration/satisfaction gradient descent within the animal's potentiality-space as defined by knowledge, inventiveness and surrounding universe. AV - public KW - imitation KW - emotion KW - gradient KW - behaviorism ER -