Contingencies of Reinforcement. Chapter 4: The experimental analysis of behavior. Quote 22

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Contingencies of Reinforcement. Chapter 4: The experimental analysis of behavior. Quote 22

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“Psychology as a basic science has failed to supply a conception which recommends itself to specialists in other fields of human behavior.” (p. 96)

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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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“Psychology as a basic science has failed to supply a conception which recommends itself to specialists in other fields of human behavior.” (p. 96)

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