Recent Issues. Chapter 1: The Place of Feeling in the Analysis of Behavior. Quote 3

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Recent Issues. Chapter 1: The Place of Feeling in the Analysis of Behavior. Quote 3

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Post published:October 18, 2018
Post category:Skinner's Quote of the Day

“The very privacy which suggests that we ought to know our own bodies especially well is a severe handicap for those who must teach us to know them.” (p. 4)

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Verbal Behavior: Extended Edition. Chapter 8: The Verbal Operant as a Unit of Analysis. Quote 5
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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“The very privacy which suggests that we ought to know our own bodies especially well is a severe handicap for those who must teach us to know them.” (p. 4)

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