Verbal behavior is a behavior-analytic account of language as operant behavior reinforced through other people’s mediation. It classifies language by function, into operants such as mands, tacts, echoics, and intraverbals, rather than by form or meaning.
- FamilyModel
- Category of its source unitIntervention Methods & Practices
- DomainMeaning & Clarity
What these mean
Editorial orientation · Family
Model
In this series, Model names the editorial family primarily used to understand and explain communication: theories, frameworks, effects, traditions, principles and other conceptual resources. It is an umbrella for a route into the field, not a claim that every included object is a predictive model.
Editorial orientation · Category
Intervention Methods & Practices
Organizes actions intended to facilitate, plan, train, negotiate, coordinate or change a situation. It connects a practical purpose with a way of working, whose conditions and consequences must be examined.