Recent Issues. Chapter 8: The School of the Future. Quote 10

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Recent Issues. Chapter 8: The School of the Future. Quote 10

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Post published:February 25, 2019
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“It is said, for example, that measures based on the study of nonhuman animals necessarily overlook what is essentially human. But we shall never know what is essentially human until we have seen what animals can do.” (p. 93)

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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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“It is said, for example, that measures based on the study of nonhuman animals necessarily overlook what is essentially human. But we shall never know what is essentially human until we have seen what animals can do.” (p. 93)

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