Introductory Concepts
Elementary Relationships
Extensions of Verbal Behavior
Multiple Controlling Relationships
Building on the Elementary Relationships
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4.1 Three Basic Types of Controlling Variables

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In the analysis of verbal behavior, there are three basic types of controlling variables that need to be taken into account. Most verbal behavior is controlled by a prior discriminative stimulus. These discriminative stimuli are divided into verbal discriminative stimuli and non-verbal discriminative stimuli.

A diagram illustrating the three basic types of behavior.
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