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#1. Jaraya, a client participating in Saturday morning therapy, often tells his mother that he is ‘tired’ and ‘cannot work.’ When the therapist asks the mother how Jaraya is doing that day, the mother responds, ‘He is tired and cannot work.’ If the only empirical basis for concluding that Jaraya is ‘tired’ is his verbal report and his observed non-engagement in therapy, and this inferred ‘tiredness’ is then presented as the causal explanation for his non-engagement, this scenario is best described as an example of which of the following mentalistic pitfalls?
The provided text introduces this scenario as a mentalism question that involves distinguishing between explanatory fictions hypothetical constructs and circular reasoning In this specific example Jarayas tiredness is offered as the explanation for his cannot work behavior If the only basis for inferring that Jaraya is tired is his verbal report a behavior and his observed nonengagement in therapy another behavior and this inferred tiredness is then used to explain those same behaviors it creates a circular argument The behavior not working verbalizing tired is used to infer the internal state tiredness and then that internal state is used to explain the behavior This is the definition of circular reasoning the cause and effect are defined in terms of each other without independent evidence While tiredness can also be considered a hypothetical construct an unobservable state or an explanatory fiction a pseudoexplanation using a label the specific inference loop described makes circular reasoning the most precise and problematic mentalistic pitfall demonstrated in this scenario according to behavioranalytic principles
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