Although the term naming is used colloquially in the English language, it refers to a specific
instance of verbal behavior within behavior analysis. Since Horne and Lowe's (Horne & …

According to traditional linguistic accounts language, and its generative nature, cannot be
taught. From a behavior analytic perspective, language is like any other behavior; it is …

Relational frame theory and verbal behavior development theory are two behavior‐analytic
perspectives on human language and cognition. Despite sharing reliance on Skinner's …

An important distinction has been drawn within the behavior-analytic literature between two
types of naming. Naming that is reinforced is referred to as bidirectional naming, and naming …

Conceptually, the use of the technical term naming appears to be a broad term that
describes several subtypes of emergent verbal behavior. Miguel (The Analysis of Verbal …

A novel procedure to induce pairing naming, considered the emergence of tacts and
selection of pictures after observing names and its corresponding pictures without specific …

The stimulus pairing observation procedure (SPOP) combined with multiple exemplar
instruction (MEI) has been shown to be effective with typically developing preschoolers in …

Although many neurotypical children acquire untaught word-object relations incidentally
from naturally occurring environmental experiences, many children with and without …

Naming consists of tacting an object and selecting it upon hearing its name as a result of
emergence. After acquiring naming, children learn object–name relations more quickly and …

Researchers have identified protocols to induce verbal behavior cusps and capabilities that
put an individual's repertoires in contact with new contingencies and allows the individual to …