In mentalistic formulations the physical environment is moved into the mind and becomes experience. Behavior is moved into the mind as purpose, intention, ideas, and acts of will.
Skinner, B. F. (2011-08-24). About Behaviorism (Vintage) (p. 113). Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group. Kindle Edition.
There are many behavioral processes generating “mutations,” which are then subject to the selective action of contingencies of reinforcement. We all produce novel forms— for example, in neologisms, blends, portmanteau words, witty remarks involving distortion, and the mistakes of hasty speech.
Skinner, B. F. (2011-08-24). About Behaviorism (Vintage) (p. 112). Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group. Kindle Edition.
Mother was sewing a button onto kid’s pants when he was a tot on his way to school. I’ve had buttons pop off my pants and shorts numerous times, short pants or knickers. The pants were brown. Her mother was flicking a baby bottle nipple to get it unclogged from dried milk but it was really a doctor tapping a glass syringe. Circumcision operation going on also. Mother bit the thread in two rather than using scissors.
