The Aim, Progress, and Evolution of Behavior Analysis
The Behavior AnalystPublished 1 April 1992Open access
Edward K. Morris
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The title of this paper celebrates three of B. F. Skinner's most fundamental contributions to behavior analysis: the three-term contingency, radical behaviorism, and the Operational Analysis of Psychological Terms.
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