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Didn’t behaviorism focus on the environment?

April 26, 2017Behaviorism Environment focus

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Didn’t behaviorism focus on the environment?

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Only insofar as it impacted human behavior. The environment had no reality for the early behaviorists except as a source of stimuli, reinforcers, and punishers. The world was all sticks and carrots to them. No wonder B. F. Skinner had to curl up in a womb-like box at night.