scholarly journals An experimental analysis of ongoing verbal behavior: Reinforcement, verbal operants, and superstitious behavior

1996 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
pp. 79-104 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sam Leigland
Keyword(s):  
Verbal Behavior ◽  
Experimental Analysis ◽  
Verbal Operants ◽  
Superstitious Behavior

scholarly journals Verbal behavior de B. F. Skinner: uma apreciação retrospectiva

2017 ◽  
Vol 19 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Kenneth MacCorquodale
Keyword(s):  
Verbal Behavior ◽  
Experimental Analysis ◽  
Experimental Analysis Of Behavior

Artigo clássico traduzido do inglês, publicado originalmente no periódico Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior sem resumo.

B. F. Skinner’s Verbal Behavior: an Introduction

1969 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Ernst A. Vargas
Keyword(s):  
Social Behavior ◽  
Verbal Behavior ◽  
Experimental Analysis ◽  
Direct Contact ◽  
Experimental Analysis Of Behavior ◽  
Social Community ◽  
The Social

Skinner’s analysis of verbal behavior requires understanding its experimental and philosophical underpinnings. His interpretation of the social behavior known as “language” builds directly from the experimental analysis of behavior in direct contact with its immediate milieu, both inner and outer, and from the framing of behavioral contact as contingency relations. The analysis of the contingency relations of verbal behavior, however, deals with properties of behavior not only under the dynamic controls of direct contact, but as that control is mediated by society. A social community constructs that mediation by shaping its members’ actions to teach other members how to verbalize effectively through the proper forms of action. As such, Skinner’s attributes of verbal behavior are: 1) relational; 2) mediational; 3) communal; and 4; stipulational. All four are necessary components of his analysis of verbal behavior, and constitute what he defines as verbal behavior.

scholarly journals The Experimental Analysis of Verbal Behavior

1998 ◽  
Vol 15 (1) ◽  
pp. 97-100 ◽  
Author(s):  
A. Charles Catania ◽  
Eliot Shimoff
Keyword(s):  
Verbal Behavior ◽  
Experimental Analysis

The concept of audience and verbal behavior’s multiple control

1969 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Ana Carolina Vieira Fonai ◽  
Tereza Maria De Azevedo Pires Sério
Keyword(s):  
Verbal Behavior ◽  
Establishing Operation ◽  
Multiple Control ◽  
Unit Of Analysis ◽  
Verbal Operants ◽  
Additional Control ◽  
Verbal Operant ◽  
Control Relation

The Skinnerian analysis of verbal behavior involved the production of a classificatory scheme of the relations between responses and environment that would be its unit of analysis – the verbal operants. From the characterization of the control relation called audience by Skinner in Verbal Behavior (1957), two basic aspects, necessary to comprehend this concept, were identified: a) the consideration of audience as another verbal operant and b) the consideration of audience as a relation of additional control (conditional stimulation or establishing operation) for other relations ­– mand , tact, echoic, intraverbal and textual. In both situations, it is intended to enlighten the possible implications that the recognition of the specified relation could mean in terms of conceptual elaboration and the importance to recognize theses relations.

Effects of Instructions on an Individual's Verbal Behavior

1972 ◽  
Vol 38 (9) ◽  
pp. 685-693 ◽  
Author(s):  
Thomas C. Lovitt ◽  
James O. Smith
Keyword(s):  
Learning Disabilities ◽  
Verbal Behavior ◽  
Experimental Analysis ◽  
Specific Learning Disabilities ◽  
Experimental Analysis Of Behavior ◽  
Experimental Conditions ◽  
Verbal Responses ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Specific Learning

The subject for this experiment was a 9 year old boy with specific learning disabilities. Using experimental analysis of behavior techniques, his verbal responses to pictures were directly affected and controlled by oral instructions. This study involved four experimental conditions and daily as well as pre- and posttest data were obtained. The potential effects of the teacher's instructions to children are discussed.

Evaluating the role of verbal behavior on “superstitious” behavior acquisition

1969 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Paulo André Barbosa Panetta ◽  
Cássia Leal da Hora ◽  
Marcelo Frota Lobato Benvenuti
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Change ◽  
Verbal Behavior ◽  
The Third ◽  
Superstitious Behavior ◽  
S Period ◽  
And Behavior ◽  
Colored Rectangle

The experiment evaluated interactions between instructions and behavior acquired by accidental relations with reinforcement (“superstitious” behavior). Four adults participated on a computer task. In each session there were 30 s periods in which the participants could respond by clicking with a mouse upon a colored rectangle displayed on the screen. At the end of each 30 s period, there was one interval of 10 s in which the participant could ask to quit. Four individual sessions were used, and in each of them there was only one contingency for scoring points: VR 6, extinction, extinction and VT 8 s. At the beginning of the last two sessions, the participants were told that no responses to the rectangle scored points. Three participants responded more in the last session than in the third, showing that instructions implying relationship between response and environmental change can facilitate the acquisition of “superstitious” behavior.

Experimental Analysis of a Technique Based on the Premack Principle Changing Verbal Behavior of Depressed Individuals

1973 ◽  
Vol 32 (1) ◽  
pp. 199-210 ◽  
Author(s):  
John C. Robinson ◽  
Peter M. Lewinsohn
Keyword(s):  
Verbal Behavior ◽  
Experimental Analysis ◽  
Behavioral Change ◽  
High Frequency ◽  
Change Agent ◽  
Change Agents ◽  
Low Frequency ◽  
The Other ◽  
Light Onset ◽  
Premack Principle

A technique based on the Premack principle was successfully used in the laboratory to change verbal behavior. The aim of the present study was to identify the critical behavioral change agents in this situation. Four groups of depressed Ss were used. The treatment of one group was based on the Premack principle. The other groups received treatment based on critical isolated components of this procedure. The first group showed a significant increase in the low-frequency verbal behavior. Contingent light onset was rejected as a critical behavioral change agent but deprivation of high-frequency verbal behavior could not be rejected. The results are discussed relative to the potential application of these findings to treatment.

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