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  1. Skinner recognized this opportunity early in his career. A portion of his modest output of empirical studies of verbal behavior was devoted to investigations of word associates (Cook and Skinner 1939; Skinner 1937).

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Critchfield, T.S. Visuwords®: a Handy Online Tool for Estimating What Nonexperts May Think When Hearing Behavior Analysis Jargon. Behav Analysis Practice 10, 318–322 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1007/s40617-017-0173-0

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