When you have the responsibility of making absolutely sure that a given organism will engage in a given sort of behavior at a given time, you quickly grow impatient with theories of learning. Principles, hypotheses, theorems, satisfactory proof at the .05 level of significance that behavior at a choice point shows the effect of a secondary reinforcement—nothing could be more irrelevant. (p. 121)
Cumulative Record. Chapter 9: A Case History in Scientific Method. Quote 17
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