The current status of the experimental analysis of verbal behavior.

2018 ◽  
Vol 18 (2) ◽  
pp. 151-168 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anna Ingeborg Petursdottir
Author(s):  
Kenneth MacCorquodale

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


Author(s):  
Ernst A. Vargas

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.


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

1993 ◽  
Vol 4 (3) ◽  
pp. 174-178 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robert G. Cook

The origins and current status of comparative cognitive psychology are examined. Great strides have been made in the last 20 years, but two problems are identified as obstacles to future progress. One is the very limited number of species studied by comparative cognitive psychologists. The second is the conflict between the increasing use of complex stimulus discriminations and the need for precise stimulus control in animal experiments. An expanded examination of more species as selected by phylogenetic and ecological considerations and an unwavering demand for the experimental identification of the controlling features of complex discriminations are suggested as solutions to these difficulties.


1987 ◽  
Vol 37 (1) ◽  
pp. 3-3 ◽  
Author(s):  
William Buskist ◽  
Samuel M. Dietz ◽  
Barbara Etzel ◽  
Mark Galizio ◽  
Aaron Brownstein ◽  
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