1. About Behaviorism by B. F. Skinner
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6. nor canRead more at location 132
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8. B005FGZ93C a24LCZLD8ZGQE5 19742 Note: skinner seems to disbelieve his own science. Edit
9. change his behavior by changing his mind or hisRead more at location 132
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11. B005FGZ93C a3GXN2SSF2DJXL 19806 Note: why would skinner say this? Edit
12. What about the stream of consciousness?Read more at location 197
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14. B005FGZ93C a2HTMSJA0PQKWW 29546 Note: Does it come from one's own mind or from some entanglement? Dean Radin and lots of writers on this subject believe some of it comes from entanglements and I have proof to that effect. Writers can empty the mind of your most valuable thoughts and stick you with some stupid retarded programming they believe is in your best interest and then you have to buy them back. If you watch TV or read novels they are likely all mixed up too! They hook you then book you. :P Edit
15. Methodological behaviorism did just the reverse: by dealing exclusively with external antecedent events it turned attention away from self-observation andRead more at location 208
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17. B005FGZ93C a2LNM69HOYV80C 31325 Note: I disagree with this. I think it did just the opposite. Some simple verbal direction can redirect the thinking back to the self. Very simple once you sit down and start writing it up. Edit
18. self-knowledge.Read more at location 209
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21. interoceptive system carries stimulation from organs like the bladder and alimentary tract, from glands and their ducts, and from blood vessels.Read more at location 273
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24. proprioceptive system carries stimulation from the muscles, joints, and tendons of the skeletal frame and from other organs involved in the maintenance of posture and the execution of movement.Read more at location 275
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26. B005FGZ93C aPDW2CN6R0MWS 41376 Note: in error This does mean that all of the important mental content you have culminated over your life time could be trashed by some writer if you have read novels or viewed too much TV. These are vital to one's survival. Edit
27. but it also plays an important part in observing our own body.Read more at location 278
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29. B005FGZ93C aXNGUE1QNI1HB 41689 Note: not so... Edit
30. but the very privacy which seems to confer a special privilege on the individual makes it difficult for the community to teach him to make distinctions.Read more at location 286
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32. B005FGZ93C a3VVZZAXJ7DXN3 42993 Note: I disagree with this wholeheartedly. Point him in the right direction and he will make distinctions. Television didn't teach me to stop pulling my sister's hair, a habit I never had. In fact because of the Three Stooges I started pulling her hair. My mother had to pull my hair in order to stop it. We don't perceive pain through the television. If someone tells me something hurts, I can believe it or I can disbelieve it. If I disbelieve it I might set myself up to cause injury to myself. If I take the approach that I want to stay safe and healthy I will create that and it will involve learning what is healthy and safe. Then one might believe what those with more wisdom teach us. Those who have been injured, in jail, on the streets, etc, they have the wisdom and it isn't new, they likely learned it again because they failed to listen to others. Edit
33. He has learned to describe a private stimulus with an accuracy which depends only upon how well the public and private events agree.Read more at location 298
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35. B005FGZ93C a25RHH6SDUVU46 44785 Note: Why protect the private egos at the expense of our own. Edit
36. “I feel as if I’d won a million dollars.”Read more at location 303
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38. B005FGZ93C a3P4LTSI8TTZLO 45504 Note: brian tracy used this This is a false idea implanted into the brain and it changes one's behavior dramatically. One can become frivilous with one's own spending often getting into debt, thinking one has all kinds of money and even investments. These can be gross manipulations of the human mind and brain. For example, the speaker or writer telling you this might then ask, how would you go about making this $million? Then he has the advantage over my creativity and can rob my life of vital knowledge I created for my own benefit. Edit
39. “I am hungry,”Read more at location 312
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41. B005FGZ93C aZS1VA73IV4A0 46816 Note: gives control to the child and not the parent...by this I mean, one should help program the child to think in this way instead of just asking the child, are you hungry, say, I am hungry too or just I am hungry. This maps the sensation of hunger with verbal behavior, I am hungry. Then when we say I am hungry, we go and eat. One must be aware writers have used this verbal cue to feed the masses on content hardly helpful to staying alive physiologically while it may expand one's psychological awareness. One is still left with unwanted dialogue to clean up. Edit
42. may teach a child to say, “I am hungry,” because itRead more at location 313
43. B005FGZ93C a22DE2BADEA8PJ 46827 Note: ??? the brain? Edit
44. the child responds quickly or eats ravenously when given food. ItRead more at location 314
45. B005FGZ93C aSP2X00PRXB63 47027 Note: This not it... Edit
46. we feel sad in the original sense of sated,Read more at location 317
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48. B005FGZ93C a2AVQ8JEZ1GH7R 47469 Note: this is the opposite of what he should have stated, one feels happy when sated. I actually feel happy after I have eaten a god meal, maybe less inclined to do something but not sad. Edit
49. “Do you see that?” or, less idiomatically, “Are you seeing that?”Read more at location 341
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51. B005FGZ93C a3AKOR8BGVLY1C 51108 Note: of course you are seeing it, the question should be a statement, "you are seeing that"? Edit
52. the quick forgetting of dreamsRead more at location 348
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54. B005FGZ93C a2D6VKN6L24X6Y 52106 Note: I remember my dreams...I have read one becomes mentally ill when one cannot recall his or her dreams. This is part of our brain processing from the days activities and is important to our survival. Edit
55. passing thoughtsRead more at location 348
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57. B005FGZ93C a1XXCWCZRU3ZHN 52130 Note: passing thoughts are part of crintical thinking and vital to survival. They are worth writing down. Edit
58. that verbal behavior is behavior. It has a special character only because it is reinforced by its effects on people—Read more at location 1206
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61. Verbal responses are classified as requests, commands, permissions, and so on,Read more at location 1215
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64. Verbal behavior has this kind of independent status when it is in transmission between speaker and listener—for example, when it is the “information” passing over a telephone wire or between writer and reader in the form of a text. Until fairly recently, linguistics and literary criticism confined themselves almost exclusively to the analyses of written records. If these had any meaning, it was the meaning for the reader, since the circumstances under which the behavior had been produced by the writer had been forgotten, if they were ever known. The availability of verbal behavior in this apparently objective form has caused a great deal of trouble. By dividing such records into words and sentences without regard to the conditions under which the behavior was emitted, we neglect the meaning for the speaker or writer, and almost half the field of verbal behavior therefore escapes attention. Worse still, bits of recorded speech are moved about to compose new “sentences,” which are then analyzed for their truth or falsity (in terms of their effect on a reader or listener), although they were never generated by a speaker. Both logician and linguist tend to create new sentences in this way, which they then treat as if they were the records of emitted verbal behavior. If we take the sentence “The sun is a star” and put the word “not” in the proper place, weRead more at location 1336
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67. it learns to do nonverbal things with comparable speed.Read more at location 1369
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69. B005FGZ93C a1MYQGTTRNE90Y 205319 Note: Very important, watching what people do and we do it throughout our lives. Edit
70. Directions for operating a vending machine describe a series of acts to be undertaken in order: “To operate, place coin in slot and pull plunger beneath item wanted.” DirectionsRead more at location 1642
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72. B005FGZ93C a1XO9C8YGYVH8R 246466 Note: Coin machine at Roses - acting this out Edit
73. “Fragmentation of a life” is said to follow “social disorganization in which a person has been ripped apart,” fragmentation being defined as an “arrangement consciousness makes in response to an environment where respect is not forthcoming as a matter of course.”Read more at location 2031
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75. B005FGZ93C a2UYFUQIJVW3LD 304871 Note: This is what happens when writers take control of somoene's mind, one no longer dreams, especially those who use speech software, one is at the mercy of the will of another. It is very dangerous tinkering with the mind of another. It is best to teach them to manage their own brains and minds. I can see that healthy minds are hardly built by devouring novels and television. We have Corporate America to thank for that deception costing us millions of dollars, our futures and our time. I no hppy camper about it. Edit
76. The body that behaves in a considerate way most of the time is the same body that is occasionally callous or cruel; the body that behaves heterosexually most of the time is the same body that is occasionally homosexual.Read more at location 2035
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78. B005FGZ93C a1N8CQ887ZRNK 305405 Note: could have acted this out... Edit
79. What a person is really like could mean what he would have been like if we could have seen him before his behavior was subjected to the action of an environment. We should then have known his “human nature.”Read more at location 2037
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81. B005FGZ93C a3BO3O5ULDGFTB 305627 Note: I disagree, you know nothing of his mind and what caused his behavior. Edit
82. The nineteenth-century psychologist treated consciousness as the place in which sensations could be observed,Read more at location 2074
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85. “In most human beings there is a repository of violence,Read more at location 2078
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87. B005FGZ93C a2SXVB857YZA2Z 311723 Note: I disagree, this denies our capacity to evolve and become rational, civilized people and it is possible, we have taken the wrong approach to doing it. There is more money in making people believe they are violent and in need of telelvision's help in dissociating these problems, rather than programming man with civilized behavior. What bit of it we do see is mingled with violence. I understand the idea behind what they are attempting to do but they fail to recognize the power of the human duplicating machine in the world, the human brain and mind, especially in our youth when the brain is young. As far as I am concerned they are abusing those who view it and they aren't paying them what their synapses are worth for looking at it but they are making lots of money for themselves. Edit
88. Blaming people in order to shape ethically acceptable behavior has an unfortunate result.Read more at location 2678
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91. Mental Radio by Upton Sinclair
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94. Last annotated on September 16, 2014
95. Starting the subject, I am like the wandering book-agent or peddler who taps on your door and gets you to open it, and has to speak quickly and persuasively, putting his best goods foremost. Your prejudice is against this idea; and if you are one of my old-time readers, you are a little shocked to find me taking up a new and unexpected line of activity. You have come, after thirty years, to the position where you allow me to be one kind of "crank," but you won't stand for two kinds. So let me come straight to theRead more at location 76
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97. B002FGTN5A a35O6YNKKUWZIB 11653 Note: This is mind control right in this book - not good - inception Edit
98. B002FGTN5A a1BMEDDPN93VQI 11805 Note: mind control using this book to hook people and accessing their thoughts Edit
99. point--open up my pack, pull out my choicest wares, and catch your attention with them if I can. [p. 6]Read more at location 79
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102. Chinese mandarins with long mustaches, and puppies chasing a string.Read more at location 162
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104. B002FGTN5A a2B2XJ3ROXW474 24344 Note: Saw this in my mind and drew it, we are being controlled by some group of people and crapped up by another what a bitch they are... Edit