ISBN: 9780874115918 - verbal behavior (5 Ergebnisse)

Paperback. Zustand: Good. 2015 Reprint of 1957 Edition. Full facsimile of the original edition. Not reproduced with Optical Recognition Software. The significance of this work was grasped immediately. Osgood wrote that Verbal Behavior is certainly one of the two or three most significant contributions to this field in our time. (Osgood, 1958, p. 212). Morris wrote that Skinner is both elegant and admirable (Morris, 1958, p. 213.) Both predicted a promising future for the book and such did turn out to be the case. Over more than half a century after its initial publication in 1957, Verbal Behavior has remained in demand and continues to be relevant. The documented efficacy of Skinner's practices, especially with autism, has assured its relevance. His functional analysis of language continues to inform contemporary research in the field of linguistics. Contents: A functional analysis of verbal behavior -- General problems -- The mand -- Verbal behavior under the control of verbal stimuli -- The tact -- Special conditions affecting stimulus control -- The audience -- The verbal operant as a unit of analysis -- Multiple causation -- Supplementary stimulation -- New combinations of fragmentary responses -- The autoclitic -- Grammar and syntax as autoclitic processes -- Composition and its effects -- Self-editing -- Special conditions of self-editing -- Self-strengthening of verbal behavior -- Logical and scientific verbal behavior -- Thinking.…

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Soft cover. Zustand: As New. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: As New. A fine paperback copy. First edition thus, first impression, of a 1992 reprint of an original 1957 work. 514 pages. 8.75x5.75x1.25 inches. Published by the B.F. Skinner Foundation of Cambridge, Massachusetts. In 1934, at the age of 30, B. F. Skinner found himself at a dinner sitting next to Professor Alfred North Whitehead. Never one to lose an opportunity to promote behaviourism, Skinner expounded its main tenets to the distinguished philosopher. Whitehead acknowledged that science might account for most of human behaviour but he would not include verbal behaviour. He ended the discussion with a challenge: "Let me see you," he said, "account for my behaviour as I sit here saying, 'No black scorpion is falling upon this table.'" The next morning Skinner began this book. It took him over twenty years to complete. The book extends the laboratory-based principles of selection by consequences to account for what people say, write, gesture, and think. Skinner argues that verbal behaviour requires a separate analysis because it does not operate on the environment directly, but rather through the behaviour of other people in a verbal community. He illustrates his thesis with examples from literature, the arts, and the sciences, as well as from his own verbal behaviour and that of his colleagues and children. Perhaps it is because this theoretical work provides a way to approach that most human of human behaviour that Skinner often called Verbal Behaviour his most important work. Published originally in 1957. Reprinted by the B. F. Skinner Foundation in 1992. This book is from the Official B. F. Skinner Foundation Reprint Series (paperback edition). We pack our books properly and ship daily from the UK.…

Paperback. Zustand: Brand New. reprint edition. 514 pages. 8.75x5.75x1.25 inches. In Stock.

Paperback. Zustand: Brand New. reprint edition. 514 pages. 8.75x5.75x1.25 inches. In Stock.