TOWARD A THEORY OF VERBAL BEHAVIOR
- 1 September 1997
- journal article
- editorial
- Published by Wiley in Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior
- Vol. 68 (2) , 271-296
- https://doi.org/10.1901/jeab.1997.68-271
Abstract
This paper is a reply to an accompanying set of six commentaries by Sidman; Hayes and Barnes; Schusterman, Kastak, and Reichmuth; Tonneau and Sokolowski; Lowenkron; and Moerk. Those commentaries were prompted by our article “On the Origins of Naming and Other Symbolic Behavior” (1996), which was, in turn, followed by 26 commentaries and a reply. In the course of the present reply, we further develop the naming account to embrace more complex verbal relations such as same, different, more, and less. We also examine what we see as the lack of conceptual coherence in equivalence theories, including relational frame theory, and the disparities between these accounts and the findings from empirical research.Keywords
This publication has 65 references indexed in Scilit:
- Reinforcement accounts for transitive inference performanceLearning & Behavior, 1995
- Practitioner Review: Early Developmental language Delay: What. If Anything. Should the Clinician Do About It?Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, 1994
- Categorization and Naming: Basic-Level Sorting in Eighteen-Month-Olds and Its Relation to LanguageChild Development, 1992
- Categorization and Naming: Basic-Level Sorting in Eighteen-Month-Olds and Its Relation to LanguageChild Development, 1992
- Infant Chimpanzees Spontaneously Perceive Both Concrete and Abstract Same/Different RelationsChild Development, 1990
- Infant Chimpanzees Spontaneously Perceive Both Concrete and Abstract Same/Different RelationsChild Development, 1990
- Functions, operations, and decalage in the development of transitivity.Developmental Psychology, 1988
- Minds, brains, and programsBehavioral and Brain Sciences, 1980
- Still more about the comprehension of "less."Developmental Psychology, 1974
- Meaning and NecessityPhilosophy, 1949