Science and Human Behavior, Chapter 13: Function versus Aspect, Quote 7

“We have seen that there are practical circumstances under which it may be useful to predict traits, but in general the trait-name tells us little about behavior. It is not only lack of specificity, however, which makes the trait-name unsuitable for a functional analysis . . . The trait-name does not refer to a unit of behavior which makes such an analysis possible.” (p. 201)

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