PSY 538 Quiz 7 Listening Flashcards
What do I suggest that what we most often speak of as listening involves
Listening involves subvocal verbal behavior.
Hallmark of Skinner’s book VB
His insistence that verbal behavior is fundamentally no different than nonverbal behavior: That is it comprises forms of operant behavior under various types of stimulus and motivational control.
Skinner’s unique contribution to the study of language.
it is not fundamentally different from other operant behavior.
What must we consider?
the listener does more than just provide an audience for, reinforce, or respond to the speaker’s verbal behavior in nonverbal ways.
When does the speaker behave verbally
when they are speaking as well as when they are listening.
How may distinguishing betweens speaking and listening be specious?
Distinguishing may be specious because Skinner pointed out that the speaker and the listener reside in the same skin.
What is our question?
What is someone doing when he or she is said to be listening?
What is the answer?
The individual is engaging in sub vocal verbal behavior.
What two reasons are the findings from brain imaging studies important for a behavioral analysis of language?
- They support the notion of behavioral continuity.
2. When someone listens they are at the very least engaging in sub vocal behavior.
What does behavioral continuity mean.
a. Behavior analysts assume that behavior occurs on a continuum from private to public.
What is joint control?
when one verbal topography is evoked jointly by two sources of stimulus control.
What does listening probably also include along with echoic behavior.
intraverbal behavior.
What the term function alterning refers to.
Relational autoclitics can produce changes in future behavioral relations that involve the listener.
