Skinner’s Verbal Behavior
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The author reviews the book that B. F. Skinner considered to be his most important work, namely Verbal Behavior in terms of its content and effect on the field. He considers such elements as the paucity of experiments, the host of allusions to literature and the masterful behavior analysis directed at elucidating verbal behavior, the latter constituting an admirable example of how behavior analysis can be applied to other forms of behavior as well.
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