Stimulus Equivalence And Language
Application of stimulus equivalence to language intervention for individuals with severe linguistic disabilities.
Stimulus equivalence and language. Pinker bloom 1990. Behavior philosophy created date. The rejection by many developmental psychologists of a behaviorist account of language acquisition has led to a modular and distinctly nativist psychology of language cf.
In other words the learner makes untrained but accurate connections between stimuli. Most other animals are unabletoreliablypassequivalencetests. Dickins dickins subject.
Symbols stimulus equivalence and the origins of language author. Since the late 1980 s the study of stimulus equivalence has been linked directly to the behavior analysis of human language in a variety of contexts. For example barnes 1994 outlined five areas of research that provide evidence to support the view that stimulus equivalence and human language are closely interrelated.
Little has been said about the role or nature of learning mechanisms in the evolution of language. Journal of intellectual developmental disability.