ABSTRACT
The principles elaborated in the preceding chapters permit us to describe and classify a large fraction of the learned behavior of people and other animals. But were we to terminate our account of behavior with the phenomena of operant conditioning, classical conditioning, environmental control, and aversive contingencies, we would still be forced to admit that the bulk of complex human behavior had either been left untouched or at best dealt with rather indirectly. The activities that might be classified as complex human behaviors are, of course, extremely diverse, and in this chapter we will examine three categories, concept acquisition, problem solving, and modeling, and finally deal with verbal behavior itself which seems so intimately associated with many forms of complex human behavior.
