Toward a theory of verbal behavior

Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior

Volumn 68, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 271-296

  Horne, Pauline J ^a,b   Lowe, C Fergus ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WALES   (United Kingdom)

^b BANGOR UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Equivalence; Language; Match to sample; Mediation; Naming; Relational frame theory; Verbal behavior

Indexed keywords

EID: 0040304905     PISSN: 00225002     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1901/jeab.1997.68-271     Document Type: Article

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