Listening with understanding and speaking with meaning

Article Abstract:

Horne and Lowe's paper on verbal behavior offers an imprecise explanation of listening and understanding. For instance, their notion of listening as aural activity is not accurately differentiated from listening with understanding. Horne and Lowe do not view as understanding the occurrence of listener behavior in a verbal episode. They raise the concept of comprehension only when the listener speaks. This gives rise to confusion as to whether naming is an act of speaking or an act of listening, and whether or not listening involves understanding.

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Achieving parity: the role of automatic reinforcement

Article Abstract:

Horne and Lowe's paper on verbal behavior emphasizes the significance of the role played by the discriminative effects of a person's speech upon the self. In light of this, Horne and Lowe gave a simple and logical analysis of the behavior considered showing equivalence relations by relying on accepted principles of behavior analysis. One weakness of their account is the minor discussion of the role of automatic reinforcement in shaping the speaker's behavior.

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