Cumulative Record. Chapter 18: A Critique of Psychoanalytic Concepts and Theories. Quote 10

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There are many words in the layman’s vocabulary which suggest the activity of an organism yet are not descriptive of behavior in the narrower sense . . . We say that a man discriminates between two objects when he behaves differently with respect to them; but discriminating is not itself behavior. (p. 291)

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