Recent Issues. Chapter 7: The Operant Side of Behavior Therapy. Quote 10

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Recent Issues. Chapter 7: The Operant Side of Behavior Therapy. Quote 10

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Post published:February 4, 2019
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“… for every behavior therapist who, upon discovering some fact about behavior, then looks for a physiological explanation, there is one fewer therapist to make further studies of behavior itself. (p. 82)

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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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“… for every behavior therapist who, upon discovering some fact about behavior, then looks for a physiological explanation, there is one fewer therapist to make further studies of behavior itself. (p. 82)

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