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The Psychological Record

Subject Areas: Arts and Humanities (miscellaneous)
Publisher: Springer International Publishing - Springer Journals
ISSN: 0033-2933
SJR: 55

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Verbal Repertoires and Contextual Factors in Cultural Change

Houmanfar, Ramona A.; Alavosius, Mark P.; Ghezzi, Elizabeth L.; Olla, Rita

2024 The Psychological Record

doi:10.1007/s40732-024-00587-z

This article provides an overview of cultural environmental factors that influence interactions between organized cultural groups and the recipients of their aggregate outcome. The discussion highlights the elaborated account of metacontingency with the primary focus on ways this perspective...
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Observation, Language Learning, and Development: The Verbal Behavior Development Theory

Greer, R. Douglas; Dudek, Jessica; Chang, Hung

2024 The Psychological Record

doi:10.1007/s40732-024-00585-1

A review of recent applied research in observation suggests researchers could profit from a new account of observational learning. Current research in the identification and establishment of verbal developmental cusps demonstrates the importance of the range of observational cusps necessary for...
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Language Development and Behavioral Systems

Pelaez, Martha; Novak, Gary

2024 The Psychological Record

doi:10.1007/s40732-023-00578-6

We present the core principles of a behavioral systems theory (BST) that incorporates dynamical systems concepts and applies them to a behavior analysis of early language development. The tenets of BST include multiple determinism, coalescent organization, nonlinearity, emergence, phase shifts,...
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A Multiscale View of Verbal Behavior

Simon, Carsta

2024 The Psychological Record

doi:10.1007/s40732-023-00577-7

In order to introduce a new way of understanding human speech, the article connects two independent lines of Skinner’s research: his work on verbal behavior and on connecting behavior analysis to evolution. The article discusses an empirical study as an example motivated by this connection....
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General Reflections on Interactions between Cross-Disciplinary Theories of Human Language Development

Hranchuk, Kieva; Greer, R. D.

2024 The Psychological Record

doi:10.1007/s40732-024-00588-y

The robust vocabularies acquired by neurotypical children are impossible to account for by direct instruction alone, and as such incidental acquisition must play a role. A variety of explanations for the source of this exponential language growth have been put forth by theorists across related...

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