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1
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What do I suggest that what we most often speak of as listening involves

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Listening involves subvocal verbal behavior.

2
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Hallmark of Skinner’s book VB

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His insistence that verbal behavior is fundamentally no different than nonverbal behavior: That is it comprises forms of operant behavior under various types of stimulus and motivational control.

3
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Skinner’s unique contribution to the study of language.

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it is not fundamentally different from other operant behavior.

4
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What must we consider?

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the listener does more than just provide an audience for, reinforce, or respond to the speaker’s verbal behavior in nonverbal ways.

5
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When does the speaker behave verbally

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when they are speaking as well as when they are listening.

6
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How may distinguishing betweens speaking and listening be specious?

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Distinguishing may be specious because Skinner pointed out that the speaker and the listener reside in the same skin.

7
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What is our question?

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What is someone doing when he or she is said to be listening?

8
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What is the answer?

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The individual is engaging in sub vocal verbal behavior.

9
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What two reasons are the findings from brain imaging studies important for a behavioral analysis of language?

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  1. They support the notion of behavioral continuity.

2. When someone listens they are at the very least engaging in sub vocal behavior.

10
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What does behavioral continuity mean.

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a. Behavior analysts assume that behavior occurs on a continuum from private to public.

11
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What is joint control?

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when one verbal topography is evoked jointly by two sources of stimulus control.

12
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What does listening probably also include along with echoic behavior.

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intraverbal behavior.

13
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What the term function alterning refers to.

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Relational autoclitics can produce changes in future behavioral relations that involve the listener.

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