Recent Issues. Chapter 12: The Behavior of Organisms at Fifty. Quote 22

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Recent Issues. Chapter 12: The Behavior of Organisms at Fifty. Quote 22

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Post published:April 30, 2019
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“Unfortunately, I decided to use reflex as the word for any unit of behavior. In doing so, I no doubt contributed to the fact that you will still find a behavioral analysis caled stimulus-response psychology.” (p. 131)

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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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“Unfortunately, I decided to use reflex as the word for any unit of behavior. In doing so, I no doubt contributed to the fact that you will still find a behavioral analysis caled stimulus-response psychology.” (p. 131)

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