Abstract
An example of complex behavior, stone carving, is analyzed in behavioral terms, based on the author’s experience while making stone sculpture. Conditioned seeing is suggested as a possible origin of the author’s experience of visualizing an image of the desired sculptural form within the stone. It is proposed that the perception of bringing the shape of the stone closer and closer to the visualized image of the desired form is analogous to the concept of parity as proposed by Palmer. The notion is presented that creative behavior might entail the combination and reorganization of fragmentary stimulus response relations, or minimal repertoires (Skinner, 1957), that may have different histories and may even be covert, such as relations that include conditioned seeing.
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