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Reflections on "Verbal Behavior" at 60
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Schlinger, Henry D., Jr. – Analysis of Verbal Behavior, 2017
In the present essay, commemorating the 60th anniversary of the publication of B. F. Skinner's "Verbal Behavior", I stand by and defend the judgment I expressed in my article "The Long Goodbye: Why B. F. Skinner's 'Verbal Behavior' Is Alive and Well on the 50th Anniversary of Its Publication" (2008c)--that Skinner's…
Descriptors: Reflection, Verbal Operant Conditioning, Reinforcement, Behavior Modification
Common and Intraverbal Bidirectional Naming
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Miguel, Caio F. – Analysis of Verbal Behavior, 2016
"Naming" has been defined as a generalized operant that combines speaker and listener behaviors within the individual. The purpose of this paper is to reintroduce the concept of naming and its subtypes, "common" and "intraverbal", distinguish it from other terms such as the tact relation, and discuss the role of…
Descriptors: Verbal Communication, Interpersonal Communication, Naming, Taxonomy
Crucial Issues in the Applied Analysis of Verbal Behavior: Reflections on "Crucial Conversations: Tools for Talking when the Stakes Are High"
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Critchfield, Thomas S. – Analysis of Verbal Behavior, 2010
A popular-press self-help manual is reviewed with an eye toward two issues. First, the popularity of such books documents the existence of considerable demand for technologies that address the everyday problems (in the present case, troublesome conversations) of nondisordered individuals. Second, many ideas invoked in popular-press books may be…
Descriptors: Verbal Stimuli, Verbal Communication, Interpersonal Communication, Operant Conditioning
An Analysis of Autism as a Contingency-Shaped Disorder of Verbal Behavior
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Drash, Philip W.; Tudor, Roger M. – Analysis of Verbal Behavior, 2004
This paper analyzes autism as a contingency-shaped disorder of verbal behavior. Contingencies of reinforcement in effect during the first to third year of a child's life may operate to establish and maintain those behaviors that later result in a diagnosis of autism. While neurobiological variables may, in some cases, predispose some children to…
Descriptors: Verbal Communication, Communication Disorders, Etiology, Autism
Advanced Behavioral Applications in Schools: A Review of R. Douglas Greer's "Designing Teaching Strategies: An Applied Behavior Analysis Systems Approach"
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Moxley, Roy A. – Analysis of Verbal Behavior, 2004
R. Douglas Greer's "Designing Teaching Strategies" is an important book directed to advanced students in applied behavior analysis for classrooms. This review presents some of the striking features of the Comprehensive Applied Behavior Analysis to Schooling (CABAS[R]) program and the individualized instruction that the book advances. These include…
Descriptors: Advanced Students, Systems Approach, Individualized Instruction, Teaching Methods