“The simplest and most satisfactory view is that thought is simply behavior - verbal or nonverbal, covert or overt. It is not some mysterious process responsible for behavior but the very behavior itself in all the complexity of its controlling relations.” LanguageProcessViewsEducationBehaviorRelationResponsibleMysteriousComplexitySimplestCovertNonverbalBehaviorism Author:B. F. Skinner
“The problem of far greater importance remains to be solved. Rather than build a world in which we shall all live well, we must stop building one in which it will be impossible to live at all.” WorldWellsProblemLanguageEducationGreaterImpossibleBuildingImportanceRemainsLive WellBehaviorism Author:B. F. Skinner
“Give me a dozen healthy infants, well-formed, and my own specified world to bring them up and I'll guarantee to take any one at random and train him to become any type of specialist I might select-doctor, lawyer, merchant-chief, and yes, even beggar man and thief, regardless of his talents, penchants, tendencies, abilities, vocations, and race of his ancestors.” MenWorldGivingWellsMightScienceMy OwnAbilityRaceLearningTalentTypeHealthyDoctorsGive MeTrainLawyerTendenciesChiefsGuaranteesDozenAncestorThievesVocationInfantSelectBeggarMerchantsSpecialistsWatsonBehaviorism Author:John B