The role of verbal behavior in the establishment of comparative relations

2020 ◽  
Vol 113 (2) ◽  
pp. 322-339 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jocelyn E. Diaz ◽  
Shannon M. Luoma ◽  
Caio F. Miguel
Keyword(s):  
Verbal Behavior ◽  
Comparative Relations

Exploring the Role of Verbal Behavior in a New Experimental Task for the Study of Metacontingencies

2013 ◽  
Vol 22 (1) ◽  
pp. 87-101 ◽  
Author(s):  
Angelo A. S. Sampaio ◽  
Lorena A. S. Araújo ◽  
Mariana E. Gonçalo ◽  
Júlia C. Ferraz ◽  
Anisiano P. Alves Filho ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Verbal Behavior ◽  
Experimental Task

Going to the zoo

2013 ◽  
Vol 21 (2) ◽  
pp. 380-398 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gerardine M. Pereira
Keyword(s):  
Problem Solving ◽  
Verbal Behavior ◽  
Physical Map ◽  
The Other ◽  
Joint Activity ◽  
Planning Activity ◽  
Common Solution ◽  
Instruction Sheet ◽  
Gaze Patterns

This paper reports on an investigation of gaze patterns and other non-verbal behavior in dyadic, problem-solving based interactions. In a planning activity, participants are given an instruction sheet and a physical map of a zoo. Both participants must coordinate their actions to find a common solution to the problem. This paper aims at examining how activity-based interactions vary from other interactions, such as everyday conversation and story-telling (Goodwin 1980; Bavelas et al. 2002, 2007). The findings of this paper suggest that participants’ non-verbal behavior, such as smiling, nodding and in particular gaze, varies according to the interactional organization. In egalitarian interactions gaze directed at the other person occurs together with meta-task utterances, for example personal and humorous remarks. This paper highlights the role of gaze in task-based interactions to show that gaze is an integral part of stance taking, as it enables participants to position themselves in a joint activity.

Need for Social Approval and Dyadic Verbal Behavior

1965 ◽  
Vol 16 (3_suppl) ◽  
pp. 1013-1016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robert Buckhout
Keyword(s):  
Verbal Behavior ◽  
Attitude Change ◽  
Social Approval ◽  
Attitude Object ◽  
Situational Demands ◽  
And Control

High and low need-for-social-approval Ss were brought together in dyads in a 2 × 2 design. One S played the role of communicator attempting to persuade a receiver to change his attitude. High need-for-social-approval receivers showed more attitude change than low need-for-social-approval and control Ss. High need-for-social-approval communicators produced more conformity to immediate situational demands. Low need-for-social-approval communicators produced more of a change in affect towards the attitude object.

The intentional and the socio-cultural in language use

1994 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 237-268 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jan Nuyts
Keyword(s):  
Verbal Behavior ◽  
Human Behavior ◽  
Speech Acts ◽  
Language Use ◽  
Language Research ◽  
Recent Debate

This paper is a contribution to the recent debate between a number of anthropologists and philosophers concerning the role of intentions in a theory of verbal behavior. It reviews a number of arguments put forward by ethno- and anthro-polinguists against the intention-centered view of human behavior common in current cognitively oriented language research, and typically represented in John Searle's theory of intentionality and of speech acts. It is argued that these arguments do not affect the assumption that intentions are always and necessarily present in (verbal) behavior (they are based on a much too simplistic view of intentionality), but they do show that intentions as such are insufficient to understand (verbal) behavior. These matters are discussed against the background of Searle's theory of intentionality.

scholarly journals ABA in Teaching to Individuals with Special Needs: The Role of the Transitive Conditioned Establishing Operation in Teaching Novel Verbal Behavior and Other Meaningful Responses

2019 ◽  
Vol 17 (1) ◽  
pp. 36-54
Author(s):  
A. Dibari ◽  
D. Rizzi
Keyword(s):  
Clinical Practice ◽  
Verbal Behavior ◽  
Social Consequences ◽  
Establishing Operations ◽  
Play Skills ◽  
Functional Skills ◽  
Restricted Interests ◽  
Novel Verbal Behavior ◽  
Teaching Ideas

Following the learner’s motivation is fundamental when teaching new skills to people with autism. Novel verbal behavior, play skills and functional skills are easily acquired by the learner when they directly benefit him.But sooner or later the variety of teaching opportunities available to the teacher may be hindered by restricted interests and limited motivation for social consequences. The severity of this barrier varies across the learner’s profile and features, but the challenge has to be faced at some point. Behavior analysis can help, by providing powerful strategies with which to overcome these barriers and expand teaching opportunities. Analysis of the Transitive Conditioned Establishing Operations (CEO-T) describes how, when access to a terminal reinforcer is blocked or denied, the environment operates to condition new stimuli as reinforcers [16; 12]. To date, several studies have demonstrated the effectiveness of strategies derived from the analysis of the CEO-T in teaching verbal and nonverbal behavior [6; 2]. The variety of target behavior taught suggests that teaching opportunities based on this analysis are countless, but despite its power in explaining behavior and inspiring teaching strategies, the concept of CEO-T has been overlooked in the teaching of skills other than manding. The defining features of the CEO-T will be discussed and a list of teaching ideas will be provided in order to stimulate a broader use of the analysis of CEO-T in clinical practice.

scholarly journals The Participatory Role of Verbal Behavior in an Elaborated Account of Metacontingency: From Conceptualization to Investigation

2011 ◽  
Vol 20 (1) ◽  
pp. 122-146 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gregory S. Smith ◽  
Ramona Houmanfar ◽  
Sushil J. Louis
Keyword(s):  
Verbal Behavior

Transient Geophysical Bases for Ostensible Ufo-Related Phenomena and Associated Verbal Behavior?

1976 ◽  
Vol 43 (1) ◽  
pp. 215-221 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael A. Persinger
Keyword(s):  
Verbal Behavior ◽  
Tectonic Stress ◽  
Geophysical Processes ◽  
And Behavior ◽  
Fine Localization

Repeated relationships between certain spatial regions and the report of ostensible UFO-like luminosities have suggested the role of as yet unspecified geophysical processes in the production of these events. Since intense, diffuse or spheroid light displays have been reported for centuries either before or during earthquakes and seem to involve piezoelectric-like effects, a model was developed to suggest that similar ionization/luminosities could occur in areas of tectonic stress, without gross seismicity, by the transient, extremely fine localization of otherwise normal geophysical forces. By using known principles of geophysics, electromagnetism, and behavior, predictions from the model can be generated to accommodate the apparent effects of some UFO-related episodes upon non-living and living electromagnetic systems. The testability of the model is emphasized.

scholarly journals The Role of Mediating Verbal Behavior in Selection-based Responding

1997 ◽  
Vol 14 (1) ◽  
pp. 41-56 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bill Potter ◽  
Shawn Huber ◽  
Jack Michael
Keyword(s):  
Verbal Behavior

Changed Content within a Reinforced Response Class

1963 ◽  
Vol 12 (3) ◽  
pp. 819-829 ◽  
Author(s):  
Leonard P. Ullmann ◽  
Leonard Krasner ◽  
Donna M. Gelfand
Keyword(s):  
Verbal Behavior ◽  
Personality Test ◽  
Response Class ◽  
Additional Measure ◽  
Emotional Words

Reinforcement and other experimental manipulations may influence the content as well as the frequency of verbal behavior. Evidence was presented from five studies ( N = 283) in which emotional words, EW, were reinforced in TAT-like situations. EW used during reinforced trials were pleasanter than those used during operant trials; differential experimental manipulations led to differential pleasantness of EW; pleasantness of EW used during operant trials was significantly associated with personality test measures, particularly anxiety and hostility. The results bear on the role of reinforcement in social influencing situations and provide an additional measure of the effect of reinforcement.

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