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#1. A behavior analyst is consulting with a teacher who is struggling with a student’s difficulty completing assignments. The teacher explains, ‘He struggles with his schoolwork because he has a poor attention span.’ When the behavior analyst asks for clarification on what ‘poor attention span’ means in this context, the teacher replies, ‘It means he has trouble focusing on his schoolwork.’ This exchange, where the ’cause’ of the behavior is essentially a rephrasing of the ‘effect,’ is a clear example of what type of faulty reasoning in behavioral explanation?
This scenario perfectly describes circular reasoning Circular reasoning occurs when the supposed cause of a behavior is merely a restatement or rephrasing of the behavior itself or its effect The explanation goes in a circle offering no new information functional understanding or observable variables that can be manipulated In this example poor attention span is offered as the cause for struggling with schoolworktrouble focusing When asked for a definition poor attention span is defined by the very behavior its meant to explain This type of reasoning fails to provide a meaningful explanation for the behavior While poor attention span could be considered a hypothetical construct and the initial statement might seem like an explanatory fiction the subsequent definition of the construct by the behavior itself confirms it as circular reasoning Philosophical doubt refers to the scientific attitude of continually questioning facts and knowledge which is a desirable trait for behavior analysts not a faulty reasoning type
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