Verbal Behavior Concepts and Applications to Behavior Change Procedures

Catalog description

This course will familiarize students with Skinner’s analysis of verbal behavior and will cover the elementary verbal operants, assessment and intervention across verbal operants, multiple control, the importance of the listener, autoclitics, private events, problem solving, and emergent behavior (e.g., bidirectional naming, stimulus equivalence, etc.). Students will demonstrate competence of these concepts by writing a research proposal based on existing research in verbal behavior. Additionally, this course covers Domains B 18-21, and G 19 of the BACB Sixth Edition Test Content Outline (TCO).