caa a22 4500 445301961 CHVBK 20180317142600.0 cr unu---uuuuu 170323e20101201xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/s12124-010-9140-9 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/s12124-010-9140-9 Mitchell Robert Department of Psychology, Eastern Kentucky University, 40475, Richmond, KY, USA aut A Resolution Between Mentalism and Teleonomy, or Fodder for a Continuing Dialogue? [Elektronische Daten] [Robert Mitchell] Scientists, including psychologists, are often disturbed by the psychological interpretation of animal behavior. Nick Thompson offered a teleonomic approach to the use of psychological terms to describe behavior that avoided the assumption that mental states (or other entities or processes) caused the behavior. I describe tensions between teleonomic and mentalistic conceptualizations of animals by some early comparative psychologists, and offer our skill at kinesthetic-visual matching as an explanation as to why humans so often assume that mental states cohere with behavior. My explanation elucidates why mentalistic interpretations of behavior remain after teleonomic description. Springer Science+Business Media, LLC, 2010 Nicholas S. Thompson nationallicence Teleonomy nationallicence Mentalism nationallicence Animal psychology nationallicence Integrative Psychological and Behavioral Science Springer-Verlag 44/4(2010-12-01), 360-369 1932-4502 44:4<360 2010 44 12124 https://doi.org/10.1007/s12124-010-9140-9 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/s12124-010-9140-9 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Mitchell Robert Department of Psychology, Eastern Kentucky University, 40475, Richmond, KY, USA aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Integrative Psychological and Behavioral Science Springer-Verlag 44/4(2010-12-01), 360-369 1932-4502 44:4<360 2010 44 12124 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer