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TOWARD A THEORY OF VERBAL BEHAVIOR
Author(s) -
Horne Pauline J.,
Lowe C. Fergus
Publication year - 1997
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.1997.68-271
Subject(s) - relational frame theory , psychology , set (abstract data type) , cognitive psychology , equivalence (formal languages) , coherence (philosophical gambling strategy) , cognitive science , social psychology , computer science , linguistics , physics , quantum mechanics , philosophy , programming language
This paper is a reply to an accompanying set of six commentaries by Sidman; Hayes and Barnes; Schusterman, Kastak, and Reichmuth; Tonneau and Sokolowski; Lowenkron; and Moerk. Those commentaries were prompted by our article “On the Origins of Naming and Other Symbolic Behavior” (1996), which was, in turn, followed by 26 commentaries and a reply. In the course of the present reply, we further develop the naming account to embrace more complex verbal relations such as same, different, more , and less . We also examine what we see as the lack of conceptual coherence in equivalence theories, including relational frame theory, and the disparities between these accounts and the findings from empirical research.