Recent Issues. Chapter 6: Whatever Happened to Psychology as the Science of Behavior? Quote 13

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Recent Issues. Chapter 6: Whatever Happened to Psychology as the Science of Behavior? Quote 13

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Post published:January 21, 2019
Post category:Skinner's Quote of the Day

“Psychology has much to gain by confining itself to its accessible subject matter and leaving the rest of the story to physiology.” (p. 71)

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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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“Psychology has much to gain by confining itself to its accessible subject matter and leaving the rest of the story to physiology.” (p. 71)

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