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How Is Physiology Relevant to Behavior Analysis?

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Physiology is an important biological science; but behavior analysis is not a biological science, and behavior analysts can safely ignore biological processes. However, ignoring products of biological processes might be a serious mistake. The important products include behavior, instinctive drift, behavior potentials, hunger, and many developmental milestones and events. Physiology deals with the sources of such products; behavior analysis can deal with how the products affect behavior, which can be understood without understanding their sources.

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Reese, H.W. How Is Physiology Relevant to Behavior Analysis?. BEHAV ANALYST 19, 61–70 (1996). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF03392739

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