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PREPOSITIONAL PHRASES SPOKEN AND HEARD
Author(s) -
Lee Vicki L.
Publication year - 1981
Publication title -
journal of the experimental analysis of behavior
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.75
H-Index - 61
eISSN - 1938-3711
pISSN - 0022-5002
DOI - 10.1901/jeab.1981.35-227
Subject(s) - repertoire , psychology , nonverbal communication , contingency , reinforcement , stimulus (psychology) , generalization , cognitive psychology , gesture , stimulus control , communication , linguistics , computer science , social psychology , artificial intelligence , neuroscience , mathematics , mathematical analysis , philosophy , physics , acoustics , nicotine
The relation between verbal and nonverbal behavior with common syntactic properties was investigated, using retarded and nonretarded children. Reinforcement was contingent on either verbal or nonverbal responses whereas responses of the other repertoire had no experimental consequences. Changes sometimes occurred in the unreinforced (collateral) repertoire, but they were always changes in the stimulus control of pre‐existing topographies. A contingency involving responses of one repertoire never instated new topographies in the collateral repertoire. This suggested that the problem of “cross‐modality generalization” should be reformulated to distinguish explicitly between instating new topographies and changing the stimulus control of pre‐existing topographies. The result confirmed Skinner's hypothesis about “the same response spoken and heard” and clarified some anomalies in previous studies.