Travis Thompson’s lengthy review of Staddon’s The New Behaviorism requires several corrections and extensions. This response discusses Staddon’s analysis of Herrnstein’s matching law and concludes that Thompson misinterprets a gentle critique as a paean. The response goes on to defend the utility of models and “internal states” (i.e., postulated processes that are not directly measurable) as “formal representation[s] of the data reduced to a minimal number of terms,” a position similar to one of B. F. Skinner’s statements. The response ends with a defense of Skinner’s empirical brilliance, but a critique of his sweeping societal prescriptions.

特拉维斯·汤普森（Travis Thompson）对Staddon的《新行为主义》的冗长评论需要进行一些更正和扩展。该回应讨论了Staddon对Herrnstein匹配法的分析，并得出结论，Thompson将温和的批评误解为一种赞美诗。回应继续捍卫模型和“内部状态”（即无法直接测量的假定过程）的效用，因为“数据的形式表示已减少到最少的术语”，这一立场与斯金纳的陈述。回应以对斯金纳经验丰富的辩护为结尾，但对他广泛的社会处方提出了批评。