While I appreciate David P. Barash’s fine essays, I take exception to his latest (“B.F. Skinner, Revisited,” The Chronicle Review, April 1). In it, he manages to misrepresent the views of not one but ...
The influential behaviorist shared his thoughts on 'failing.' ...
Functional analysis has a long history in psychology. Originally borrowed from mathematics (Ponte, 1992), it is the central concept in behavior analysis, the perspective on psychology created by B. F.