Cumulative Record. Chapter 21: Some Relations Between Behavior Modification and Basic Research. Quote 5

Another useful principle discovered in basic research has to do with the maintenance of behavior . . . Schedules are now widely used to solve what are essentially practical problems—for example, in generating baselines to show drug effects and emotional changes such as the conditioned suppression called “anxiety”—but the implications for behavior modification have not been fully explored. (p. 324)