Contingencies of Reinforcement. Chapter 9: The inside story. Quote 4

“There is no harm in saying that a student gets high marks because of his intelligence or plays the piano well because of his musical ability, or that a politician takes bribes because of his greed or runs for office because of his ambition, so long as we recognize that we are “explaining” one instance of behavior simply by pointing to other instances presumably traceable to the same, though unidentified, variables.” (p. 276)

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