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Extended Analysis of Empirical Citations with Skinner's "Verbal Behavior": 1984-2004
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Dixon, Mark R.; Small, Stacey L.; Rosales, Rocio – Behavior Analyst, 2007
The present paper comments on and extends the citation analysis of verbal operant publications based on Skinner's "Verbal Behavior" (1957) by Dymond, O'Hora, Whelan, and O'Donovan (2006). Variations in population parameters were evaluated for only those studies that Dymond et al. categorized as empirical. Preliminary results indicate that the…
Descriptors: Verbal Communication, Citation Analysis, Verbal Operant Conditioning, Meta Analysis
Ernst Mach and B. F. Skinner: Their Similarities with Two Traditions for Verbal Behavior
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Moxley, Roy A. – Behavior Analyst, 2005
Ernst Mach is most closely associated with a positivism that demanded a language of close contact with reality. Mach linked this view with the tradition of the quest for an ideal language in which meaning is a property of a word. Logical positivism and the S-R psychology of the early B. F. Skinner also participated in this ideal-language…
Descriptors: Psychology, Verbal Stimuli, Pragmatics, Behavior Theories
B. F. Skinner's Contributions to Applied Behavior Analysis
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Morris, Edward K.; Smith, Nathaniel G.; Altus, Deborah E. – Behavior Analyst, 2005
Our paper reviews and analyzes B. F. Skinner's contributions to applied behavior analysis in order to assess his role as the field's originator and founder. We found, first, that his contributions fall into five categorizes: the style and content of his science, his interpretations of typical and atypical human behavior, the implications he drew…
Descriptors: Review (Reexamination), Intellectual History, Profiles, Behavior Theories