About Behaviorism, Chapter 10: The Inner World of Motivation and Emotion, Quote 7

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About Behaviorism, Chapter 10: The Inner World of Motivation and Emotion, Quote 7

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Post published:June 29, 2017
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“We tend to make nouns of adjectives and verbs and must then find a place for the things the nouns are said to represent.” (p. 177)

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The pathological condition of verbal behavior called aphasia often emphasizes functional differences which are hard to understand in terms of the traditional account … The aphasic has lost some of the functional relationships which control his verbal behavior. A response of a given form may no longer be under the control of one functional relation, although it is still under the control of another. (p. 190)
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“We tend to make nouns of adjectives and verbs and must then find a place for the things the nouns are said to represent.” (p. 177)

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