Selection and B. F. Skinner: Comments on “Successive approximations to selectionism: Skinner’s framework for behavior in the 1930s and 1940s,” by Leão and Neto.

• Baum, William M. ^[1]
  1. [1] University of California System

     University of California System

     Estados Unidos

     
• Localización: Revista mexicana de análisis de la conducta = Mexican journal of behavior analysis, ISSN 0185-4534, Vol. 44, Nº. 2, 2018, págs. 244-248
• Idioma: inglés
• DOI: 10.5514/rmac.v44.i2.68542
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  • Skinner’s views about selection evolved.  Leão and Neto show convincingly that his selectionism was at best nascent in the 1930s and 1940s.  Their arguments persuade me that no concept of selection by consequences may be found in Skinner’s published writings in those decades.