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“flight, n. … 7. an outburst, mounting, or soaring above the ordinary; lofty elevation and excursion; as, a flight of imagination or fancy; a flight of ambition.” From Webster’s New Twentieth Century Dictionary of the English Language, unabridged, second edition: William Collins Publishers, Inc., 1980, p. 701.
This argument is dedicated lovingly to Florence Ring Harris. In the 1960’s, when she too was in her 60’s, she became the Director of the Preschool of the University of Washington’s Institute of Child Development, and immediately learned a new vocabulary and a new systematic approach to the analysis of child behavior. She coupled that with her longstanding sense of adventure and dedication to the cause of young children, and collaborated in the first studies of behavior modification of preschool children’s problem behaviors through differential teacher attention. Without that intensely loving, daring, and intelligent collaboration, I doubt that those studies would have been possible, successful, or instructive. Florence Harris died as the Seventh Annual Convention of the Association for Behavior Analysis began.
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Baer, D.M. A Flight of Behavior Analysis. BEHAV ANALYST 4, 85–91 (1981). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF03391857
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