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This essay was adapted from the Horsley Gantt Lecture delivered at the meeting of the Pavlovian Society, September 1991. The lecture was in part an adaptation of excerpts from a book,Behaviorism, Neobehaviorism, and Cognitivism in Learning Theory: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives, published by Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 1989.
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Amsel, A. Confessions of a neobehaviorist. Integrative Physiological and Behavioral Science 27, 336–346 (1992). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02691168
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