Factors Fostering the Forgetting & Remembering of Childhood Abuse
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Authors
Meyer, Staheli
Issue Date
2022
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Dissertation
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This dissertation will review various psychological conceptualizations of forgetting and remembering with an emphasis on the serviceably of each conceptualization. Constructs are taken to be serviceable when they bring scientists towards contact with events in ways that are less incumbered by mentalistic, reductionistic, and organocentric imprints. An alternative conceptualization derived from Interbehavioral Psychology will be described. Interbehavioral Psychology offers a naturalistic account, free from reductionistic and dualistic notions. A section will be dedicated to applications of the Interbehavioral position to the understanding of forgetting and remembering childhood abuse. The aim of the experimental analysis is to investigate the factors fostering forgetting and subsequent remembering akin to the experience of many victims of childhood abuse. Of particular focus will be: 1) the factors participating in the decreased establishment of substitutive stimulus functions in the initial association condition, 2) the evolution of stimulus functions antithetical to those established in the initial association condition, and 3) the setting factors which actualize particular functions at particular times.