TPEE - Language and cognition in individuals with intellectual disability

Code: EES26718

Total Credits: 8 credits

Subject Profile: Optional

Syllabus: Skinner's Verbal Operants Acquisition of simple verbal operants: tact, mand, intraverbal Listener and speaker behavior Strategies for teaching verbal behavior: choice procedure according to the model, training of multiple exemplars, naming Acquisition of complex verbal operants: abstraction, analogy Research in verbal behavior.

Main Bibliography:

  1. SKINNER, B.F. (1957). Verbal behavior. New York: Appleton-Century-Crofts.
  2. Brino, A.L. e Souza, C.B.A. de Comportamento verbal: uma análise da abordagem skinneriana e das extensões explicativas de Stemmer, Hayes e Sidman. Interação em Psicologia, 2005, 9(2), p. 251-260.
  3. Hayes, S.C., Barnes-Holmes, D., & Roche, B. (2001) Relational frame theory: a post-skinnerian account of human language and cognition.
  4. Horne, P.J., & Lowe, F. (1996). On the origins of naming and other symbolic behavior. Journal of The Experimental Analysis of Behavior, 65 (1), 185-241.
  5. SELECTED ARTICLES FROM THE JOURNAL THE ANALYSIS OF VERBAL BEHAVIOR
  6. SELECTED ARTICLES FROM THE JOURNAL OF APPLIED BEHAVIOR ANALYSIS
  7. SELECTED ARTICLES FROM THE JOURNAL EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF BEHAVIOR ANALYSIS