Science and Human Behavior, Chapter 8: The Controlling Environment, Quote 4

Science and Human Behavior“An organism will not acquire an abstract response until a reinforcing agency sets up the required contingency. There are no “natural” contingencies which reinforce a response in the presence of a single property without respect to other properties. The necessary contingency apparently requires the mediation of other organisms.” (p. 135-136)

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