Recent Issues. Chapter 7: The Operant Side of Behavior Therapy. Quote 15

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Recent Issues. Chapter 7: The Operant Side of Behavior Therapy. Quote 15

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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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“We need to construct relatively immediate consequences of human behavior which will act as the remoter consequences would act if they were here now.” (p. 84)

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