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. 1996 Spring;19(1):61–70. doi: 10.1007/BF03392739

How is physiology relevant to behavior analysis?

Hayne W Reese
PMCID: PMC2733586  PMID: 22478240

Abstract

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.

Keywords: behavior analysis, developmental milestones, developmental events, physiological processes, physiological products, physiology

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