Recent Issues. Chapter 2: The Origins of Cognitive Thought. Quote 7

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Recent Issues. Chapter 2: The Origins of Cognitive Thought. Quote 7

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Post published:November 13, 2018
Post category:Skinner's Quote of the Day

“Like pre-Darwinian evolution (where to evolve meant to unroll as one unrolled a scroll), developmentalism is a form of creationism.” (p. 16)

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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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“Like pre-Darwinian evolution (where to evolve meant to unroll as one unrolled a scroll), developmentalism is a form of creationism.” (p. 16)

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