How Long to Read Verbal Behavior

How Long Does it Take to Read Verbal Behavior?

It takes the average reader 6 hours and 57 minutes to read Verbal Behavior by B. F. Skinner

Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more

Description

In 1934, at the age of 30, B. F. Skinner found himself at a dinner sitting next to Professor Alfred North Whitehead. Never one to lose an opportunity to promote behaviorism, Skinner expounded its main tenets to the distinguished philosopher. Whitehead acknowledged that science might account for most of human behavior but he would not include verbal behavior. He ended the discussion with a challenge: "Let me see you," he said, "account for my behavior as I sit here saying, 'No black scorpion is falling upon this table.'" The next morning Skinner began this book. It took him over twenty years to complete. This book extends the laboratory-based principles of selection by consequences to account for what people say, write, gesture, and think. Skinner argues that verbal behavior requires a separate analysis because it does not operate on the environment directly, but rather through the behavior of other people in a verbal community. He illustrates his thesis with examples from literature, the arts, and sciences, as well as from his own verbal behavior and that of his colleagues and children. Perhaps it is because this theoretical work provides a way to approach that most human of human behavior that Skinner ofter called Verbal Behavior his most important work.

How long is Verbal Behavior?

Verbal Behavior by B. F. Skinner is 413 pages long, and a total of 104,489 words.

This makes it 139% the length of the average book. It also has 128% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read Verbal Behavior Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 9 hours and 30 minutes to read Verbal Behavior aloud.

What Reading Level is Verbal Behavior?

Verbal Behavior is suitable for students ages 12 and up.

Note that there may be other factors that effect this rating besides length that are not factored in on this page. This may include things like complex language or sensitive topics not suitable for students of certain ages.

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