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Verbal Behavior is a 1957 book by psychologist B. F. Skinner, who describes verbal behavior as a function of controlling consequences and stimuli, not as the product of a special inherent capacity. The book introduces the concepts of mand, tact, echoic, textual, and intraverbal, and applies a functional analysis to verbal behavior.
22 wrz 2024 · Learn how B.F. Skinner's revolutionary approach to verbal behavior challenges traditional linguistics and explains language acquisition and use through reinforcement and consequences. Explore the six primary verbal operants, the applications and controversies of Skinner's theory, and the future of verbal behavior research.
Following the publication of Verbal Behavior, Skinner returned to the subject only sporadically. Three papers from this period have been in-cluded in the extended edition in order to provide the reader with a single comprehensive volume of Skinner’s interpretation of verbal behavior.
This article reviews Skinner's (1957) book Verbal Behavior and its implications for explaining language development in infants and children. It integrates Skinner's functional analysis with current knowledge of caregiver-infant interactions and verbal operants.
A comprehensive guide to Skinner's analysis of verbal behavior, based on his book Verbal Behavior: Extended Edition. It includes questions, answers, and explanations for each chapter, as well as the book's ISBN and publisher information.
In this brilliant and ambitious work, Skinner gives a functional analysis of verbal behavior and argues that operant conditioning can account for and explain a large portion of linguistic phenomena, as demonstrated in laboratory experiments and extensive literary analysis.
The unit of verbal behavior — the verbal operant — is defined as a class of responses of identifiable form functionally related to one or more controlling variables.
