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Thurs., 2/18 · 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm Invited Address (VB) (1 CEU - BACB) Salon A (ID #1226)Add #1226 to my program #40351231
Future Directions in the Analysis of Verbal Behavior DAVID C. PALMER, Smith College
Skinner's Verbal Behavior was a remarkable first step in understanding verbal behavior, but much remains to be done. This talk identifies several topics that require further clarification. I attempt to show how each one can be approached while remaining in the interpretive framework of Skinner's analysis.
Subtle regularities in "grammatical intuitions" can be understood in terms of autoclitic frames.
Identity matching rests on discrimination of saltations in response strength (joint control).
Seemingly inexplicable enduring effects of a salient stimulus may arise from implicit conditioning.
Differences among stimuli in this regard can perhaps be explained by blocking.
Interpretations of problem-solving and recall depend on a conception of the repertoire in which a vast number of mutually incompatible responses are rising and falling in probability, stirred up by ambient stimuli, often intraverbal. Such effects are happening, not as covert behavior, but entirely below the threshold of emission.
Each of these topics is imperfectly understood and together they constitute some of the future directions in which the field of verbal behavior can move.
