Introductory Concepts
Elementary Relationships
Extensions of Verbal Behavior
Multiple Controlling Relationships
Building on the Elementary Relationships
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45.12 Secondary Verbal Behavior and Textual Behavior
With textual behavior, we may read what we have just written and therefore the visual response-product of ongoing written behavior may control subsequent textual responses.
Textual Behavior
A form of verbal behavior with the following features:
The response is vocal
It is controlled by a prior stimulus that is the response-product of writing behavior
There is point-to-point correspondence between the stimulus and the response
The specific topography and dynamic characteristics of the vocal response
The specific form of the visual verbal stimulus (e.g., written, printed, or typed)
Formal and dynamic features of the response
Whether or not there is any reinforcement for the current response
The “meaning” of either the stimulus or the response
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