We can explain the tendency to identify thinking with covert behavior by pointing out that the reinforcing effects of covert behavior must arise from self-stimulation. But self-stimulation is possible, and indeed more effective, at the overt level. (p. 438)
Verbal Behavior: Extended Edition. Chapter 19: Thinking. Quote 22
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