B. F. Skinner - Focus on Verbal Behavior (1988)

B. F. Skinner discuss verbal behavior with Eve Segal of San Diego State University in an interview conducted at Harvard University in February, 1988.

[@Slurmski89]

I would pay money if someone could clean up the pops and snaps in these old Skinner videos.

[@connor1564]

how much would you pay? I have them without crackle

[@Slurmski89]

@@connor1564 Really? Hmm... I don't know. Now I'm wondering if the B.F. Skinner Foundation has clean versions. How did you get them without crackle?

[@vito9722]

​@@connor1564 I pay 5$

[@ReigninAmazin17]

This man is off the charts brilliant, listening to him explain himself with such surgical precision feels like cheating

[@rustinholliday2252]

@Inge Fossen Everything the human nervous system takes in through the senses creates a response of sorts, as we're responding machines. What's your point?

[@rustinholliday2252]

@Inge Fossen The intellectual mind loves to divide things up into smaller pieces, or multiple entities. Imo the human organism is one subject which takes in information through the senses, the sensory information is then passed through and converted by the brain and then the appropriate behaviour is performed by the organism from the mathematical equation of the organisms past memory + it's current state + the new information that has just been added in. It's all deterministic for me. The reason behaviorism died out as a lone therapy is because outward behaviour is only half of the equation, the behaviour of the persons thoughts is equally important, hence the current use of cognitive behavioral therapy being largely used to help mental health problems today.

[@ashishsuryabanshi]

Love you B.F. Skinner for lovely discussing

[@thuynguyen-lc6qg]

You try to give the video more brightness it will be great if you do

[@robkijak6912]

He’s going to be proved right, mark my words

[@lynnsparling1530]

hahhaaa...funny

[@DeaLarentina]

He has

[@user-bz9qk2fw7v]

@@lynnsparling1530 hard to argue with that well thought out response of yours

[@lynnsparling1530]

@@user-bz9qk2fw7v (He has been proven right which is why it was funny. ;)

[@thepoltergeizzt]

@@lynnsparling1530source?

[@user-tl6iu3ee3f]

the structure of languages started with verbal listening to the environment to this language to the verbal to speak, and this the verbal open the our verbal to see when you see you speak that and when you touchto speak that you touch and when you hear you speak that you hear all the respect to the science and I listening just for the sceince and for leroning frome other scientists that all.

[@Vector--]

This man verbal comunication move me to buy his book😂

[@sandracanhado8853]

infelizmente não consegui colocar na opção tradução para o português

[@bell9930]

love you B.F!

[@JW-rm3ci]

Burrhus is brilliant

[@laurenajones1251]

#letssssgoooooyellowwww

[@nickchristensen3144]

Smartest man who ever lived

[@michaelwright8896]

He is not 1. Most of the time he just makes lots of bold assertions with no evidence to support them. 2. He is a behaviorist which has been proven wrong in the 60's 3. Behaviorism is kinda like a physicist only studying meters

[@nickchristensen3144]

Inge Fossen language, or verbal behavior rather, is developed in the typical developing community through generalized conditioned reinforcement. Those individuals with language deficits, such as those with autism or developmental disabilities, are less sensitive to the processes that establish stimuli as generalized conditioned reinforcers. Thus, in respect to teaching a child with autism to speak, the challenge lies not in the “cognitive capacity” of language. Rather, it lies in the arrangement and generalization of reinforcing stimuli.

[@nickchristensen3144]

Michael Wright his assertions have now been empirically demonstrated by hundreds, if not thousands, of experiments by behavior scientists. Most notably, look in The Analysis of Verbal Behavior and the Journal if Applied Behavior Analysis. Behaviorism is a broad term and has never been “proven wrong”. Radical Behaviorism is seeing a rise in numbers, especially in the US. Radical behaviorism is a philosophy that is built upon a foundation of experimental evidence and accounts for all human behavior, both public (movements, actions) and private (thoughts, feelings). It is also consistent with the Theory of Evolution by natural selection.

[@michaelwright8896]

@@nickchristensen3144 95% of what Skinner said was just assertions with no evidence. And all of it was true? Even if that were true, he is still far far away from Chomsky, Aristotle, Voltaire, Leonardo Da Vinchi, Newton ect;

[@nickchristensen3144]

Michael Wright agree to disagree I suppose. Have you read Skinners Verbal Behavior, or Chomsky’s review of it? What about MacCorquodale’s rebuttal to Chomsky’s review? Chomsky misunderstood the concept of reinforcement. However, Skinners lack of interest to respond to his critics (he rarely ever did) creates the impression that Chomsky slayed behaviorism, when in fact he hadn’t. Skinner himself said he only read the first nine or so pages of Chomsky’s review. He stopped reading because Chomsky had missed the entire point of reinforcement. Applied behavior analysis is founded on the concepts and principles that were experimentally discovered by Skinner. At the time of Verbal Behavior (the book), Skinner emphasized that the book was a theoretical work only with very little empirical support. But In the six decades since its publication, his hypotheses about the acquisition of language has proven correct on nearly all grounds.

[@laurenajones1251]

Idk but I call yellow

[@stevenhines5550]

Yeah. Noises with consequences. Yeah, it's a repertoire. This guy is mentioned in textbooks. We're doomed.

[@RenatusChristoph]

He devoids language of intrinsic meaning

[@laurenajones1251]

#yellowwins lmao

[@GoikOShea]

Did he teach a rat to talk yet?

[@henrymoreira7898]

My book this, my book that... all ego and erroneous knowledge

[@jacquelineweber869]

He is being interviewed about his book so...yeah he will likely refer to his book

[@henrymoreira7898]

@@jacquelineweber869 he was debunked by Noam Chomsky in 1959

[@jacquelineweber869]

@@henrymoreira7898 hmmmm not quite debunked. Aggressively challenged perhaps, but proved nothing in his critique.

[@DFHobbs]

@@henrymoreira7898 Quite the opposite.

[@davidfarr2677]

Skinner's forgot more about linguistics than Gnome will ever know.

[@melissew7534]

i feel so bad for the interviewer she must be bored outta her mind

[@melissew7534]

the joe biden of philosophers

[@IcanSeeMyselfOutThanks]

heh

[@melissew7534]

verbal….response..reinforcement…listening..nonverbal…water glasss..comprehension…processes… it’s so fucking boring 😭

[@IcanSeeMyselfOutThanks]

holy shit, you are thirsty for attention. Can someone give this girl some attention so she doesn't go off the deep end, please?

[@aquelakeli]

It helps if you play solitaire while listening (doing that here) 😂

[@melissew7534]

this is the most boring video ever. if someone can watch this video all the way through without sleeping..i verbally solute you or whatever.

[@jerm2122]

You must really hate this video 💀. I don’t blame you

[@mitkoogrozev]

I frequently come back to it, because I'm intensely interested in the factors that shape and control human behavior, which would be necessary to know for building a better society for all, and mr. Skinners' behaviorism is the only branch of psychology that actually looks scientific and makes sense to me. The others seem to use a lot of hypotheticals or old timey philosophical woo woo concepts, or just metaphors without really identifying what's going on, making giant assumptions and use ambiguous language that can be interpreted in many ways.