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