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Hawkins, Emma; Gautreaux, Grant; Chiesa, Mecca – Analysis of Verbal Behavior, 2018
Conceptually, the use of the technical term "naming" appears to be a broad term that describes several subtypes of emergent verbal behavior. Miguel ("The Analysis of Verbal Behavior," 32, 125-138, Miguel, 2016) introduces the concept of subtypes of naming, specifically common bidirectional naming and intraverbal bidirectional…
Descriptors: Naming, Verbal Stimuli, Taxonomy, Models
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Eikeseth, Svein; Smith, Dean P. – Analysis of Verbal Behavior, 2013
A common characteristic of the language deficits experienced by children with autism (and other developmental disorders) is their failure to acquire a complex intraverbal repertoire. The difficulties with learning intraverbal behaviors may, in part, be related to the fact that the stimulus control for such behaviors usually involves highly complex…
Descriptors: Language Impairments, Children, Autism, Pervasive Developmental Disorders
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Schlinger, Henry D. – Behavior Analyst, 2008
As we celebrate the 50th anniversary of the publication of B. F. Skinner's "Verbal Behavior", it may be important to reconsider the role of the listener in the verbal episode. Although by Skinner's own admission, "Verbal Behavior" was primarily about the behavior of the speaker, his definition of verbal behavior as "behavior reinforced through the…
Descriptors: Listening, Verbal Communication, Behavior, Inner Speech (Subvocal)
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Matos, Maria Amelia; Passos, Maria de Lourdes R. da F. – Behavior Analyst, 2006
Formal and functional analyses of verbal behavior have been often considered to be divergent and incompatible. Yet, an examination of the history of part of the analytical approach used in "Verbal Behavior" (Skinner, 1957/1992) for the identification and conceptualization of verbal operant units discloses that it corresponds well with formal…
Descriptors: Verbal Stimuli, Traditional Grammar, Structural Linguistics, Interdisciplinary Approach
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Thomas, C. A. – Journal of Early and Intensive Behavior Intervention, 2004
The very fact that behavior analysts have so carefully analyzed the speaker in terms of maintaining variables, but disregard the listener's behavior as broadly "receptive" unless the listener vocalizes (then applying the operants of the speaker until the listener, stops vocalizing) seems to be missing the point of Skinner's original analysis in…
Descriptors: Research and Development, Verbal Stimuli, Verbal Communication, Listening Skills