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Verbal Behavior (Official B. F. Skinner Foundation Reprint Series / paperback edition)

Verbal Behavior (Official B. F. Skinner Foundation Reprint Series / paperback edition)

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ABOUT THE BOOK: In 1934 at the age of 30 B. F. Skinner found himself at a dinner sitting next to Professor Alfred North Whitehead. Never one to lose an opportunity to promote behaviorism Skinner expounded its main tenets to the distinguished philosopher. Whitehead acknowledged that science might account for most of human behavior but he would not include verbal behavior. He ended the discussion with a challenge: "Let me see you " he said "account for my behaviour as I sit here saying No black scorpion is falling upon this table." The next morning Skinner began this book. It took him over twenty years to complete. The book extends the laboratory-based principles of selection by consequences to account for what people say write gesture and think. Skinner argues that verbal behavior requires a separate analysis because it does not operate on the environment directly but rather through the behavior of other people in a verbal community. He illustrates his thesis with examples from literature the arts and the sciences as well as from his own verbal behavior and that of his colleagues and children. Perhaps it is because this theoretical work provides a way to approach that most human of human behavior that Skinner often called Verbal Behavior his most important work. Published originally in 1957. Reprinted by the B. F. Skinner Foundation in 1992 and 2002. This book is from the Official B. F. Skinner Foundation Reprint Series (paperback edition).

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ISBN10: 0874115914

ISBN13: 9780874115918

Author: Skinner, B. F.

Binding: Paperback

Published Date: December 01, 1991

Package Weight: 567.00g

Package Dimension: 222 x 32 x 146cm

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