Reflections on Behaviorism and Society. Chapter 5: Walden Two Revisited. Quote 19

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Reflections on Behaviorism and Society. Chapter 5: Walden Two Revisited. Quote 19

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“What is needed is not a new political leader or a new kind of government but further knowledge about human behavior and new ways of applying that knowledge to the design of cultural practices.” (p. 66)

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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 is needed is not a new political leader or a new kind of government but further knowledge about human behavior and new ways of applying that knowledge to the design of cultural practices.” (p. 66)

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