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Skinner’s analysis of VB
focus on FUNCTION of Language
Verbal Behavior
All oral and non-oral forms of communication
Verbal Behavior
Mostly maintained by social reinforcement of some type
Verbal Behavior
OPERANT bx that is reinforced through mediation by other persons
Audience
An audience is all listeners who belong to a trained verbal community
TACT
Under Antecedent control of …
Non-verbal stimulus
TACT
name/label many things…nouns, verbs, descriptions, relations, functions of items
MAND
Under antecedent control of an EO
MAND
Can be viewed as asking for something the speaker wants/needs, has a need for at the moment…
Duplic
Under control of VERBAL STIMULI
Duplic
Same form/topography; same word, same sign
Duplic
Identical, the stimulus and response
Duplic
3 types
 Echoic
 Copy text
 Mimetic (motor imitation)
Echoic
Mimicking a vocal verbal unit
Echoic
The responses will be exactly like the antecedent verbal stimuli
Copy Text
writing what you see…exactly
Mimetic
Imitating a non-verbal vocal unit, like a sign or gesture
Codic
Antecedent stimuli is verbal (not necessarily vocal)
Codic
 Is identical (point to point correspondence)
 Not same topography/form
Codic
 Reading text
 Transcribing
 Finger spelling what you hear
 Saying what you see finger spelled
Intraverbals
 Under antecedent control of verbal stimuli
 Not identical and doesn’t share form/topography
 The stimuli and response look totally different
Receptive Language
 Under antecedent control
 Mand to comply
Skinner’s view of language:
functional
Verbal Behavior is
operant
Verbal Behavior is
* Form of communication
* Maintained mostly by social reinforcement
speaker is
individual emitting the verbal response
listener is
The individual the speaker interacts with