Science and Human Behavior, Chapter 6: Shaping and Maintaining Operant Behavior, Quote 1

“Operant conditioning shapes behavior as a sculptor shapes a lump of clay. Although at some point the sculptor seems to have produced an entirely novel object, we can always follow the process back to the original undifferentiated lump, and we can make the successive stages by which we return to this condition as small as we wish.” (p. 91)

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