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Verbal Behavior is a 1957 book by psychologist B. F. Skinner, in which he describes what he calls verbal behavior, or what was traditionally called linguistics.
Learn the definitions, evocations, and reinforcers of verbal operants in applied behavior analysis. Verbal operants are mands, tacts, echoics, intraverbals, textuals, and transcriptions.
Verbal Behavior (VB) therapy teaches communication and language. It is based on the principles of Applied Behavior Analysis and the theories of behaviorist B.F. Skinner. This approach encourages people with autism to learn language by connecting words with their purposes.
KEYWORDS: Verbal behavior, caregiver-infant interaction, language learning, antecedents, consequences, selective, reinforcement, functional analysis, contingency shaped behavior, verbal operants, mands, echoics, tacts, autoclitics.
- Scott F. McLaughlin
- 2010
Readers turn to Verbal Behavior for a variety of reasons. Some wish to learn whether the principles of behavior can be extended to such a complex domain as verbal behavior, while others read the book be-cause it is a landmark in the history of science. Many are graduate stu-dents who are reading the book as an assignment in a course. Others
A writer, a linguist, and a behavior analyst agreed to meet inside B. F. Skinner's skin. The result of this encounter materialized in 1957, as Verbal Behavior, an approach to speech whose most important theoretical and applied consequences are yet to come.
verbal behavior. Taken together, and including other such explicanda, these constitute explanatory fictions. What is the problem herein with these? They “allay” curiosity and bring inquiry to an end. 13. What is the unfortunate consequence of the doctrine of ideas? That verbal behavior has an independent existence apart from other behavior ...
