Cumulative Record. Chapter 11: Reinforcement Today. Quote 15

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Post published:August 10, 2022
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The analysis of avoidance and escape behavior in the hands of Sidman, Brady, and others has made it possible to study combinations of positive and negative reinforcers in many interrelated patterns. The analysis of punishment in such terms has permitted a reformulation of the so-called Freudian dynamisms. (p. 170)

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