Reflections on Behaviorism and Society. Chapter 5: Walden Two Revisited. Quote 11

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Reflections on Behaviorism and Society. Chapter 5: Walden Two Revisited. Quote 11

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“If the world is to save any part of its resources for the future, it must reduce not only consumption but the number of consumers. It should be easy to change the birthrate in an experimental community.” (p. 61)

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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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“If the world is to save any part of its resources for the future, it must reduce not only consumption but the number of consumers. It should be easy to change the birthrate in an experimental community.” (p. 61)

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