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Article: THE EFFECT OF COMPUTER-EMITTED SPEECH INFLECTIONS DURING VERBAL-INTERACTIVE RESPONDING.
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- The Psychological Record
- Article date:
- September 22, 2001
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In an early experiment, Greenspoon (1955) confirmed that adult human verbal behavior may come under the control of subtle differential reinforcement contingencies. Later, Truax (1966) demonstrated that differential reinforcement played a role in therapistpatient interactions during "non-directive' (Rogerian) therapy. In a laboratory context, Catania, Matthews, and Shimoff (1982) found that selectively reinforcing rules in opposition to contingencies resulted in participants performing at rates that minimized acquisition of moment-by-moment monetary reinforcement. Ninness, Shore, and Ninness (1999) suggested that differential reinforcement of rule selections is a powerful ...