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Recent Issues. Chapter 4: The Listener. Quote 4

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Post published:December 19, 2018
Post category:Skinner's Quote of the Day

“The mand frees us from making a response. The tact replaces the discriminative stimulus controlling a response.” (p. 38)

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Verbal Behavior: Extended Edition. Chapter 6: Special Conditions Affecting Stimulus Control. Quote 7
Reinforcing sounds in the child’s environment provide for the automatic reinforcement of vocal forms. Such sounds need not be verbal; the child is reinforced automatically when he duplicates the sounds of airplanes, streetcars, automobiles, vacuum cleaners, birds, dogs, cats, and so on. But among the sounds which become important are the verbal responses of his parents and others. (p. 164)
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“The mand frees us from making a response. The tact replaces the discriminative stimulus controlling a response.” (p. 38)

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