Recent Issues. Chapter 2: The Origins of Cognitive Thought. Quote 2

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Recent Issues. Chapter 2: The Origins of Cognitive Thought. Quote 2

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Post published:November 6, 2018
Post category:Skinner's Quote of the Day

“As an experimental analysis has shown, behavior is shaped and maintained by its consequences, but only by consequences that lie in the past.” (p. 15)

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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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“As an experimental analysis has shown, behavior is shaped and maintained by its consequences, but only by consequences that lie in the past.” (p. 15)

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