?url_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Adc&rft.title=Burrhus+F.+Skinner&rft.creator=Verplanck%2C+W+S&rft.subject=Behavioral+Analysis&rft.subject=Behavioral+Biology&rft.subject=Perceptual+Cognitive+Psychology&rft.subject=Social+Psychology&rft.description=In+dealing+with+Skinner%2C+we+are+concerned+with+a+theorist+who+now+espouses+no+theory%2C+a+systematist+whose+system+is+still+developing%2C+and+a+constructive+thinker+some+of+whose+most+important+contributions+have+been+those+of+a+critic.++In+the+course+of+his+writings%2C+Skinner+has+presented+the+results+of+a+comprehensive+experimental+program%2C+and+elaborated+a+theory+of+behavior+based+upon+it.+Since+its+publication+in+comprehensive+form+in+The+Behavior+of+Organisms%2C+he+has%2C+one+may+infer+from+more+recent+writings%2C+modified+it+greatly+by+eliminating+several+central+concepts+without+substituting+others.+These+publications+are+not+sufficient+to+enable+us+to+analyze+the+system+in+its+current+status%2C+so+that+we+will+restrict+ourselves+to+its+earlier+form.++From+an+examination+of+this+theory%2C+we+may+learn+something+of+the+reasons+for+its+alteration%2C+and+perhaps+reveal+some+relationships+between+the+adequacy+of+the+theory+as+it+was+stated+and+the+procedures+which+were+followed+in+its+construction.+That+portions+of+the+theory+as+it+was+presented+in+1938+no+longer+find+complete+acceptance+is+not+relevant+to+our+purpose%3B+much+may+be+learned+from+autopsies.++The+revision+of+Sinner's+theoretical+views+has+not+extended+downward+to+his+basic+assumptions+with+respect+to+the+nature+of+psychological+theory%2C+nor+to+the+elementary+statements+of+much+of+his+data+language+and+of+the+basic+laws+of+behavior.+The+systematic+position+is+unchanged.+It+is+largely+at+the+level+at+which+complex+concepts+are+introduced+that+revisions+have+been+made.&rft.publisher=Appleton-Century-Crofts&rft.contributor=Estes%2C+W+K&rft.contributor=al.%2C+et&rft.date=1954&rft.type=Book+Chapter&rft.type=PeerReviewed&rft.format=text%2Fhtml&rft.identifier=http%3A%2F%2Fcogprints.org%2F601%2F1%2Fbiblio15.html&rft.identifier=++Verplanck%2C+W+S++(1954)+Burrhus+F.+Skinner.++%5BBook+Chapter%5D+++++&rft.relation=http%3A%2F%2Fcogprints.org%2F601%2F