VB- An FA of VB Flashcards
VB defined so far
Behavior reinforced through the mediation of others needs.
What comprises the total verbal episode?
The behaviors of speaker an listener taken together.
The extent to which we can understand vb in a causal analysis is to be assessed from the extent to which we can do what (two things)?
The extent to which we can predict the occurrence of specific instances and, eventually, from the extent to which we can produce or control such behavior by altering the condition under which it occurs.
What is semantics?
The technical study of meaning
semantics continues to be the question of what?
Of how meanings are expressed and how they change.
What is the function of an explanatory fiction.
It allays curiosity and bring inquiry to an end.
What is our first responsibility?
Description
Once we have description what may we then advance to?
Explanation
What do description and explanation consist of?
Description: the topography of the subdivision of human behavior
Explanation: what conditions are relevant to the occurrence of the behavior- what are the variables of which it is a function.
What is meant by the effect of ultisols causes?
Separate variables combine to extend their functional control, and new forms of behavior emerge from the recombination of old fragments.
What is meant by thinking?
The speaker and the listener within the same skin engage in activities.
What has language come to refer to?
The practices of a linguistic community rather than the behavior of any one member
