SOCSCI 2UB3 Lecture 7: Verbal Behaviour
15 Jan 2019
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Cognitive psychology (cognitivism): perception, attention, memory, problem solving, reasoning, language *dualistic. Mentalism are very common: intuition, imaging, deciding, expectations, personality. Behaviourism: deals with only one dimensional system: observable events, also include events that are covert. Expressive language (what a person produces) + receptive language (what a person hears and processes) = creates meaning. Behaviour acting directly on the environment. Verbal behaviour mediated by the behaviour of others. Talking to self = not verbal behaviour because not mediated by someone else. Attempted to separate language from underlying psychological entities. Push too radical others very critical. Environmental variables control when and if the operant will be emitted. Turn away from people that says verbal behaviour was just a cognitive process. Environmental variables operating on the organism (you) Are functionally independent each one functions in different way. Was not focused on describing the topography of language. Grammar, formal/informal, etc. do not matter (looks or sounds like)
