Introductory Concepts
Elementary Relationships
Extensions of Verbal Behavior
Multiple Controlling Relationships
Building on the Elementary Relationships
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32.4 Definition of Response Reduction

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This is called response reduction and includes a verbal response controlled by the speaker’s own overt behavior, private kinesthetic stimuli that are collateral with observable public stimuli, and the response then is reduced in magnitude to the point where no public stimuli are produced. Features irrelevant to response reduction include the topography of the response and the particular form of the speaker’s overt behavior.

Response Reduction

A way in which the verbal community brings verbal behavior under the control of private stimuli that has the following features:

A verbal response controlled by the speaker’s own overt behavior

Private kinesthetic stimuli that are collateral with observable public stimuli

The response then is reduced in magnitude to the point where no public stimuli are produced

The topography of the response

The particular form of the speaker’s overt behavior

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