Contingencies of Reinforcement. Chapter 2: Utopia as an Experimental Culture. Quote 1

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Contingencies of Reinforcement. Chapter 2: Utopia as an Experimental Culture. Quote 1

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“Everyone who went to heaven was to be happy, but it was not clear just why. No one, in fact, has ever portrayed a very interesting heaven.” (p. 31)

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Reinforcing sounds in the child’s environment provide for the automatic reinforcement of vocal forms. Such sounds need not be verbal; the child is reinforced automatically when he duplicates the sounds of airplanes, streetcars, automobiles, vacuum cleaners, birds, dogs, cats, and so on. But among the sounds which become important are the verbal responses of his parents and others. (p. 164)
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“Everyone who went to heaven was to be happy, but it was not clear just why. No one, in fact, has ever portrayed a very interesting heaven.” (p. 31)

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