Reflections on Behaviorism and Society. Chapter 11: The Free and Happy Student. Quote 1

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Reflections on Behaviorism and Society. Chapter 11: The Free and Happy Student. Quote 1

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Post published:December 19, 2019
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“What we may call the struggle for freedom in the Western world can be analyzed as a struggle to escape from or avoid punitive or coercive treatment.” (p. 143)

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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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“What we may call the struggle for freedom in the Western world can be analyzed as a struggle to escape from or avoid punitive or coercive treatment.” (p. 143)

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