Verbal Behavior Skinner B. F.
Verbal Behavior Skinner B. F. At the age of 30, B. F. Never one to lose an opportunity to promote behaviorism, Skinner expounded its main tenets to the distinguished philosopher. Skinner found…
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Verbal Behavior Skinner B. F.
At the age of 30, B. F. Never one to lose an opportunity to promote behaviorism, Skinner expounded its main tenets to the distinguished philosopher. Skinner found himself at a dinner sitting next to Professor Alfred North Whitehead.
He ended the discussion with a challenge: "Let me see you," he said, "account for my behavior as I sit here saying, 'No black scorpion is falling upon this table.'" The next morning Skinner began this book. Whitehead acknowledged that science might account for most of human behavior but he would not include verbal behavior. 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 behavior requires a separate analysis because it does not operate on the environment directly, but rather through the behavior of
Verbal Behavior Skinner B. F.
Verbal Behavior
Verbal Behavior
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