BEHP1165: Conditioning the Behavior of the Listener is the kind of topic that looks straightforward until it collides with the speed, ambiguity, and competing demands of language assessment, teaching sessions, caregiver coaching, and natural communication routines. In Conditioning the Behavior of the Listener, for this course, the practical stakes show up in clearer case conceptualization, better instructional targets, and stronger generalization, not in abstract discussion alone.
Provider: ABA Technologies / Florida Tech
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Join Free →Outlines Skinner's role in the discussion of rule-governed behavior in behavior analysis, how other behavior analysts took up the mantle and how Skinner's discussion of instruction and conditioning the behavior of the listener in his book, Verbal Behavior (1957), should have laid the foundation for his view on rules, but didn't. Then suggests that if the term rules should be retained, it should be for the function-altering effects of verbal stimuli that Skinner described when the listener's behavior is conditioned. Alternatively, behavior analysts should simply abandon the term in favor of a functional analysis of the effects of verbal stimuli.
| Certification Body | Credits | Type |
|---|---|---|
| BACB | 2 | General |
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