ABSTRACT
One area of human higher activity, however, certainly escapes for ever any attempt at causal explanation; that is the domain of creativity. In the 1960s the myth of creativity was linked with the anti-school movement in education, and with non-directivist approaches in psychology. As for language, the concern with thought processes was not new in Burrhus Frederic Skinner; it was not simply a response to the increasing interest in problem-solving in psychology. The founder of behaviourism, embarrassed with mental appearance of thinking, solved the difficulty by assimilating thought to subvocal speech. Skinner's contribution to psychology is felt to end at the point where intelligence begins. If his work on elementary learning in animals is recognised, he is not generally credited with any significant advance in the field of human thought. Rules, in Skinner's terminology, are verbal statements that describe aspects of the world or of the relation of the subject to the world, and that is used efficiently in acting.
