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Review
. 1992 Nov;47(11):1411-22.
doi: 10.1037//0003-066x.47.11.1411.

B. F. Skinner's legacy to human infant behavior and development

J L Gewirtz  1 , M Peláez-Nogueras
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Review

B. F. Skinner's legacy to human infant behavior and development

J L Gewirtz et al. Am Psychol. 1992 Nov.

Abstract

B. F. Skinner's legacy to human behavioral research for the study of environment-infant interactions, and indeed for the conception of development itself, is described and exemplified. The legacy is largely the practicality, the efficiency, and the comparative advantage--relative to diverse other behavioral and nonbehavioral approaches--of using the operant-learning paradigm to organize and explain many of the sequential changes in behavior patterns conventionally thought to constitute infant development.

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