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Direct linkPeterson, Gail B. – Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior, 2004
Despite the seminal studies of response differentiation by the method of successive approximation detailed in chapter 8 of "The Behavior of Organisms" (1938), B. F. Skinner never actually shaped an operant response by hand until a memorable incident of startling serendipity on the top floor of a flour mill in Minneapolis in 1943. That occasion…
Descriptors: Social Environment, Physical Environment, Verbal Stimuli, Behavior Patterns
