Recent Issues. Chapter 12: The Behavior of Organisms at Fifty. Quote 9

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Recent Issues. Chapter 12: The Behavior of Organisms at Fifty. Quote 9

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Post published:April 11, 2019
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“An operant was a kind of behavioral atom. True, I could take pressing a lever apart by extinguishing its parts separately (The Behavior of Organisms, 1938, p. 102), but even so it was close to a minimal unit.” (p. 125)

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“An operant was a kind of behavioral atom. True, I could take pressing a lever apart by extinguishing its parts separately (The Behavior of Organisms, 1938, p. 102), but even so it was close to a minimal unit.” (p. 125)

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