Recent Issues. Chapter 11: A New Preface to Beyond Freedom and Dignity. Quote 6

“Operant conditioning, too, has its limitations. It greatly extends the range of behavior, but it also prepares only for a future that resembles the selecting past. Moreover, only a small repertoire could be acquired during a single lifetime through operant conditioning alone. Those limitations were corrected in turn by the evolution of processes through which organisms received help from other members of their species.” (p. 115)