Verbal Behavior: Extended Edition. Chapter 4: Verbal Behavior under the Control of Verbal Stimuli. Quote 5

In destroying the specificity of the control exercised over a given form of response by a given condition of deprivation or aversive stimulation, we appear to leave the form of the response undetermined … But what is to take the place of deprivation in controlling a response which has achieved a generalized reinforcement? The answer, of course, is some current stimulus. (p. 54)

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