Contingencies over B. F. Skinner’s Discovery of Contingencies
by Julie S. Vargas, PhD
“What B. F. Skinner began is not an “approach”,
‘view”, “discipline”, “field”, or “theory”.
It was, and is, a science, differing from psychology
in its dependent variables, its measurement system,
its procedures, and its analytic framework.
Skinner and his colleagues left us thousands of
studies documenting functional relationships
between contingencies and behavior. Behavior,
they found, can be explained without appealing
to internal physiology or hypothesized mental
processes.” Click here to download the article.