The Effects of Vocal Blocking on Sequencing Visual and Tactile StimuliThe Analysis of Verbal Behavior - Tập 39 Số 2 - Trang 226-246 - 2023
Ratkos, Thom, Camacho, Mikayla
The inclusion of private events in the philosophy of our science is integral to avoid dualism and remain objective rather than making assumptions about an unseen mind. However, the inclusion of behaviors and stimuli which cannot be observed in an analysis poses obvious issues. One established method of studying covert behavior is to examine tasks that are presumed to require verbal mediation, and ...... hiện toàn bộ
The Selectionist Meaning of C. S. Peirce and B. F. SkinnerThe Analysis of Verbal Behavior - Tập 18 - Trang 71-91 - 2017
Roy A. Moxley
The selectionist meaning of C. S. Peirce and B. F Skinner, which has an empirical existence, is advanced against essentialist meaning, which does not. Against a tradition that advocates essentialist meanings, the development of selectionist meaning is traced from Darwin through Peirce and on to Skinner. The views of Peirce and Skinner on meaning are presented as sharing a compatible conceptual fou...... hiện toàn bộ
Contingency Adduction of “Symbolic Aggression” by PigeonsThe Analysis of Verbal Behavior - Tập 14 - Trang 5-17 - 2017
Paul Thomas Andronis, T. V. Joe Layng, Israel Goldiamond
This study addressed the question: Can novel social behavior arise even though the organism has had no explicit training in that particular social pattern? Seven pigeons were trained individually to peck keys for brief access to food. Four of these birds were also trained to peck two “switching keys” which, at first, raised or lowered the requirements on their own food keys. Later, these switching...... hiện toàn bộ