Summary of Skinner and Piaget Articles
Summary of Skinner and Piaget Articles B.F. Skinner The article on Skinner discusses (2008) his theories about verbal behavior. He refutes other theories of language acquisition and verbal communications, making the case that all verbal communication is a behavioral response to environmental stimuli. Over time, a human being develops patterns from repeated responses to a similar stimulus and the result is a collection verbal behaviors that appear to characterize that individual’s personality (as cited in Diessner, 2008). But, says Skinner (2008), the verbal behavior is not driven by any internal personality or character of that person, only by ...