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The Evolution of Language and Rule-Governed Behavior

2000
Language is a form of behavior, the most significant feature of which is instructional control. Most of the behavior performed by children after they develop the rudiments of verbal behavior is maintained (at least in part) by language. Obviously, this does not mean that children spontaneously follow the verbal instructions given by their parents and ...
H. A. Chris Ninness, Glen McCuller, Liza Ozenne   +2 more
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Setting and Applying Appropriate Rules Governing Patron Behavior

Public Library Quarterly, 2005
Abstract This article outlines the steps for establishing an effective patron behavior policy, one based on existent state and federal law. Along with delineating the process, the authors suggest draft language that library leaders can use as they draft their own policies.
Glen E. Holt, Leslie Edmonds Holt
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An Experimental Analysis of Rule-Governed Behavior

1989
Contingency-shaped behavior is behavior directly controlled by the relations between responses and their consequences. But behavior may also come under the control of antecedent stimuli, stimuli in the presence of which responses produce their consequences.
A. Charles Catania, Eliot Shimoff, Byron A. Matthews   +2 more
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Rule-Governed Behavior in Behavior Analysis

1989
The field of behavior analysis,1 committed to a basic science of human behavior, has never had an easy time of it. Two different but related criticisms have plagued the field. First, it has been argued that the rich workings of mental life stand in the way of a science attempting to explain all human behavior in terms of physical laws.
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A Theory of Rule-Governed Behavior and Organizational Behavior Management

Journal of Organizational Behavior Management, 1993
To a large extent, an organization's culture is probably not based on direct-acting contingencies of reinforcement and punishment. Instead it is generally based on indirect-acting conlineencies he.. analoe to reinforcement and ounishmentl A direct- - acting contingencyTs one where the oulcome involved'in the contingency is sufficiently immediate ...
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Language, Intelligence, and Rule-Governed Behavior

1988
One of the odder phenomena of the past thirty years is that Chomsky’s transformational, i. e., “generative” linguistic theory denies the major premises of modern biological thought but nonetheless claims to have a biological basis. Chomsky and his adherents claim to hold a nativist biological position. Generative grammar supposedly reflects the species-
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Rule-Governed Behavior: Theory

2021
Richard W. Malott, Kelly T. Kohler
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Comments on Rule-Governed Behavior

Journal of Organizational Behavior Management, 1993
Richard Malott, Maria Malott, Satoru Shimamune   +2 more
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Some Clinical Implications of Rule-Governed Behavior

1989
It is not difficult to be a behaviorist in accounting for “normal” behavior. Men and women normally perform daily tasks that earn a livelihood, maintain health, and sustain social relationships. The controlling influences of salary, nutrition, and attention are apparent and require little psychological interpretation.
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Rule-Governed Behavior: Teaching Social Skills via Rule-Following to Children with Autism

Developmental Neurorehabilitation, 2022
George Noell
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