Verbal Behavior
Published on 19. November 2020
464 pages
978-1-83974-669-7 (ISBN)
Description
Verbal Behavior is a 1957 book by psychologist B. F. Skinner, in which he describes what he calls verbal behavior, or what was traditionally called linguistics. Skinner's work describes the controlling elements of verbal behavior with terminology invented for the analysis-echoics, mands, tacts, autoclitics and others-as well as carefully defined uses of ordinary terms such as audience.
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Content
- Intro
- DEDICATION
- PREFACE
- Part I - A PROGRAM
- Chapter 1 - A Functional Analysis of Verbal Behavior
- Chapter 2 - General Problems
- Part II - CONTROLLING VARIABLES
- Chapter 3 - The Mand
- Chapter 4 - Verbal Behavior under the Control of Verbal Stimuli
- Chapter 5 - The Tact
- Chapter 6 - Special Conditions Affecting Stimulus Control
- Chapter 7 - The Audience
- Chapter 8 - The Verbal Operant as a Unit of Analysis
- Part III - MULTIPLE VARIABLES
- Chapter 9 - Multiple Causation
- Chapter 10 - Supplementary Stimulation
- Chapter 11 - New Combinations of Fragmentary Responses
- Part IV - THE MANIPULATION OF VERBAL BEHAVIOR
- Chapter 12 - The Autoclitic
- Chapter 13 - Grammar and Syntax as Autoclitic Processes
- Chapter 14 - Composition and Its Effects
- Part V - THE PRODUCTION OF VERBAL BEHAVIOR
- Chapter 15 - Self-Editing
- Chapter 16 - Special Conditions of Self-Editing
- Chapter 17 - Self-Strengthening of Verbal Behavior
- Chapter 18 - Logical and Scientific Verbal Behavior
- Chapter 19 - Thinking
- Two Personal Epilogues
- I. THE VALIDITY OF THE AUTHOR'S VERBAL BEHAVIOR
- II. NO BLACK SCORPION
- Appendix
