Correspondence training, prior verbal training, and control of nonverbal behavior via control of verbal behavior

The multiple control of verbal behavior.

Amid the novel terms and original analyses in Skinner's Verbal Behavior, the importance of his discussion of multiple control is easily missed, but multiple control of verbal responses is the rule rather than the exception. In this paper we summarize and illustrate Skinner's analysis of multiple control and introduce the terms convergent multiple control and divergent multiple control. We point...

Students as Judges of Teachers' Verbal and Nonverbal Behavior

Using intermittent reinforcement to program maintenance of verbal/nonverbal correspondence.

We investigated the effects of an intermittent reinforcement procedure on maintenance of verbal/nonverbal correspondence with nutritious snack choices in a day-care setting. Nutritious snack choices were first established using correspondence training procedures in a multiple baseline across three children. Withdrawal of the procedures with one subject led to loss of appropriate responding, sug...

effect of listening strategy training on iranian efl learners listening comprehension and use of strategies

this study aimed to investigate the effects of listening strategy training on iranian efl learners listening comprehension and use of such strategies. this work, employing an experimental methodology, was conducted among 60 adult efl learners from a language institute in isfahan, iran, as participants. the participants, who were selected based on the results of a placement test, were assigned t...

Io~al of Verbal Learning and Verbal Behavior

The validity of transformation grammar for explaining differences in recall of differently structured series (a simple declarative sentenee-D vs. a passive negative query-PNQ) of 10 nonsense syllables and function words was tested. All the main variables, except for grammatical structure, gave rise to significant differences. Function words were more easily recalled than nonsense content words;...