Skinner’s Verbal Behavior: A Reference List

Reference List

Reference citations in B. F. Skinner's verbal behavior.

In writing Verbal Behavior, B. F. Skinner (1957) made clear his intention not to review the extant literature on the subject matter (Skinner, 1979, p. 282). Nonetheless, he did formally and informally cite many scientific, philosophical, and literary books and articles throughout his text. The formal citations appear as references in footnotes at the bottoms of pages, but are not found in any r...

Workforce Rostering Reference List

References [1] S Abdennadher and H Schlenker. INTERDIP – an interactive constraint based nurse scheduler. [2] J L Arthur and A Ravindran. A multiple objective nurse scheduling model. A multi-objective approach to nurse scheduling with both hard and soft constraints. [10] R N Burns and M W Carter. Work force size and single shift schedules with variable demands. [12] K A Dowsland and J M Thompso...

Skinner’s Verbal Behavior

The author reviews the book that B. F. Skinner considered to be his most important work, namely Verbal Behavior in terms of its content and effect on the field. He considers such elements as the paucity of experiments, the host of allusions to literature and the masterful behavior analysis directed at elucidating verbal behavior, the latter constituting an admirable example of how behavior anal...

P a R T 1 0 Verbal Behavior Verbal Behavior* Key Terms

Chapter 25 is devoted to verbal behavior, a distinguishing feature of the human behavioral repertoire. Verbal behavior is at once the phenomenon that makes humans particularly interesting and the vehicle with which we express that interest. Verbal behavior makes progress possible from one generation to the next and enhances the development of sciences, technologies, and the arts. Building on Sk...