Gewirtz J L, Peláez-Nogueras M
Department of Psychology, Florida International University, Miami 33199.
Am Psychol. 1992 Nov;47(11):1411-22. doi: 10.1037//0003-066x.47.11.1411.
B. F. Skinner's legacy to human behavioral research for the study of environment-infant interactions, and indeed for the conception of development itself, is described and exemplified. The legacy is largely the practicality, the efficiency, and the comparative advantage--relative to diverse other behavioral and nonbehavioral approaches--of using the operant-learning paradigm to organize and explain many of the sequential changes in behavior patterns conventionally thought to constitute infant development.
描述并举例说明了B. F. 斯金纳对人类行为研究的遗产，该研究涉及环境与婴儿互动，乃至发展概念本身。相对于其他各种行为和非行为方法，这一遗产主要体现在使用操作性学习范式来组织和解释许多传统上被认为构成婴儿发展的行为模式的顺序变化时所具有的实用性、效率和比较优势。
