Studies in Verbal Behavior

Preface

Introduction

Part I Some Basic Issues in Studies of Verbal Behavior

Introduction to Part I

Some Problems of Response Measurement in Verbal Behavior: The Response Unit and Intraresponse Relations

Summary and Conclusions

Study 1 Response Bias and Serial Effects in a Modified Shannon Guessing Game

Introduction

Materials

Procedure

Results

Discussion

Summary

Appendix A A Pilot Study in Guessing the First Words of Sentences

Appendix B A Check Experiment on the Sentence Position of Words to Be Guessed

Study 2 A Comparison of Oral and Written Verbal Behavior

Introduction

Procedure

Results

Discussion

Summary

Part II Some Stimulus Properties of Verbal Behavior

Introduction to Part II

Study 1 Search Time as a Function of Target Location and Frequency in the Language

Introduction

Method

Results

Discussion

Summary

Appendix A Frequencies for Field Syllables

Appendix B Plan of Stimulus Card

Appendix C Method for Calculating Theoretical Probabilities of Degrees of Imbedding

Study 2 Some Stimulus Properties of Syntagmatic and Paradigmatic Word Sequences

Introduction

Method

Results

Discussion

Summary and Conclusions

Appendix A Instruction Page and Sample Items from Each of the Four Types of Stimulus Booklets

Study 3 Verbal Dependencies in the Analysis of Language Behavior: Experiment 1

Introduction

Procedure

Results and Discussion

Appendix A Prose Passage

Appendix B Frequency Distributions and Information Estimates of Subjects' Guesses

Part III Some Response Properties of Verbal Behavior: The Sentence Unit

Introduction to Part III

Study 1 Verbal Dependencies in the Analysis of Language Behavior: Experiments 2 and 3

Experiment 2: A Pilot Study Using Sentence Frames

Experiment 3: Responses to Sentence Frames

Procedure

Results and Discussion

Appendix A Data Sheet Used to Obtain Subjects' Responses in Experiment 3

Study 2 Some Characteristics of Sentences as Response Units

Introduction

Procedure

Results

Discussion

Summary

Part IV Supplementary Materials

Additional Appendixes to Studies in This Volume

Appendix 1 Word Frequency Groups Based on Lorge Magazine Count

Appendix 2 (a) Information in Letters of Each Letter Position within Each Length-Class of Tokens, Based on Lorge Magazine Count

Appendix 2 (b) Information in Letters of Each Letter Position within Each Length-Class of Types, Based on Lorge Magazine Count

Appendix 3 Number of Occurrences of CVC Nonsense Syllables in Initial and Remaining Three Letter-Positions in All-Letter Tokens of Lorge Magazine Count

Materials from Other Sources

Appendix 4 (a) Rated Association Values of Numbers from 0-100

Appendix 4 (b) Supplementary Report: Rated Association Values of Numbers from 0-100

Appendix 5 Letter Association and Sequence Norms

Appendix 6 A Revision of Hull's Table of Associative Values for 320 Selected Nonsense Syllables

Appendix 7 Association Value of 320 Selected Words and Paralogs

Appendix 8 Response Faults in Word Association as a Function of Response Entropy

Appendix 9 Some Verbal Materials for the Study of Concept Formation

Appendix 10 Approximations to the Statistical Structure of English

References

Author Index

Subject Index