Volume 8 Num. 3 - October 2008
Skinner?s Verbal Behavior
Volume 8 Num. 3 - October 2008 - Pages 287-294
Authors:
Kurt Salzinger
Abstract:
The author reviews the book that B. F. Skinner considered to be his most important work,
namely Verbal Behavior in terms of its content and effect on the field. He considers such
elements as the paucity of experiments, the host of allusions to literature and the masterful
behavior analysis directed at elucidating verbal behavior, the latter constituting an admirable
example of how behavior analysis can be applied to other forms of behavior as well.
Key words:
Skinner, verbal behavior, conditioning of verbal behavior, tact, mand, autoclitic, Chomsky.
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- [275-276] Presentation of the Series Celebrating the 50th Anniversary of the book, Verbal Behavior, B.F. Skinner
- [277-285] Skinner?s Verbal Behavior In a New Century
- [279-285] An Orderly Arrangement of Well-Known Facts: Retrospective Review of B. F. Skinner?s Verbal Behavior
- [295-307] On Skinner?s Definition of Verbal Behavior
- [309-322] Conditioning the Behavior of the Listener
- [335-350] A Behavior Analytic Interpretation of Theory of Mind
- [351-362] Language Is Complex
- [363-386] The Ontogenetic Selection of Verbal Capabilities: Contributions of Skinner?s Verbal Behavior Theory to a More Comprehensive Understanding of Language
- [413-430] A Proposal to Measure a Modulator of the Experience of Enjoyment: The Gaudiebility Scale
