A Glossary of Descriptive Psychology Concepts

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Verbal Behavior

1. A Deliberate Action in which the primary Performance is a locution.


2. Behaviors, <V>, that can be denoted by specifying three parameters <C, L, {B}>, where:
   
   

   C = Concept

   (the concept being acted on, compared to C′, all other concepts that might have been acted on)

   L = Locution

   (the word, phrase, or sentence uttered)

   {B} = Behavior

   (a set of behaviors that qualify as "acting on Concept C")



3. The sense in which verbal behavior is straightforwardly behavior is shown via deletion and substitution as follows:

   <IA>

   =

   <θ, θ, C, θ, L, θ, θ, θ>, {B}

4. One of four perspectives on the Person Concept.