What is wrong? // Emma Kate Patterson

 At the beginning of the essay by skinner he points out what he believes is wrong beliefs about behaviorism. He points out that it ignores feelings. I think this is important because we cannot account everything we do to our nature and raising. We must account for the feelings of the human person. A lot of our behavior is determined by how we feel. How we act and react to our surroundings much of the time is affected by our feelings. We cannot talk about behavior without taking feeling into account. Every human acts out of feelings. Much of the time our anger and aggression is cause by a feeling and we act on that feeling. Feeling is the cause and our behavior is the affect. Our behavior cannot be accounted for without considering the feelings of the person. Often times a therapist will ask how something made you feel and this is because often times our feelings is what leads to our actions. Often times when told to control our emotions we are being told to control our feelings because often times our emotions are caused by our feelings. We often regret things we do that are done out of a feeling or emotion. It is impossible almost to discuss our behavior without taking our feelings into account and that is why Skinner is absolutely right in his point. 

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