Hayes, L. J., & Chase, P. N. (Eds.). (1991). Dialogues on verbal behavior. Reno, NV: Context Press.
This volume, originating from the First International Institute on Verbal Relations, is current, innovative, and broad in scope. It brings together some of the leading behavioral theorists and researchers. Each of twelve challenging chapters is followed by discussion and commentary. Dialogues is the first of a series of book-length treatments of verbal behavior from a contemporary behavioral point of view.
Dialogues on Verbal Behavior will put you in contact with the cutting edge. It contains behavioral approaches to such topics as rules, connectionism, stimulus equivalence, referential relations, methodological advances in the study of verbal interactions, memory, artificial intelligence, and the analysis of cognition.
Contents:
- Substitution and Reference by Linda J. Hayes
- A Relational Control Theory of Stimulus Equivalence by Steven C. Hayes
- Language as Contingency-Substitution Behavior by Emilio Ribes Inesta
- An Analysis of Self-Editing: Method and Preliminary Findings by Cloyd M. Hyten & Philip N. Chase
- Conversation Analysis and the Analysis of Verbal Behavior by Ullin T. Place
- Selectionist Approach to Verbal Behavior: Potential Contributions of Neuropsychology and Computer Simulation by John W. Donahoe
- Mentalistic Approaches to Verbal Behavior by Hayne W. Reese
- Cognitive Problems, Behavioral Solutions by Kurt Salzinger
- The Role of Rules in Concept Formation by Philip N. Chase & Jeffrey S. Danforth
- Role of Private Events in Rule-Governed Behavior by Richard W. Malott & Maria Emma Garcia
- A Behavioral Interpretation of Memory by David C. Palmer
- Verbal Behavior and Artificial Intelligence by Ernest Vargas