B-20: Identify the role of multiple control in verbal behavior ©
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Target Terms: multiple control, verbal behavior
Neat categories help us understand the complexity of multiple control! The verbal operants are broken down into overly simplistic categories so that we can more easily understand them individually. It helps to start here in order to better understand the complex “web” of human behavior in our day-to-day.
“Two facts emerge from our survey of the basic functional relations in verbal behavior: (1) the strength of a single response may be, and usually is, a function of more than one variable and (2) a single variable usually affects more than one response. (p. 227)”
- Skinner, B. F. (1957). Verbal behavior. New York: Appleton-Century-Crofts.