Phillip Hineline: Story-Telling; Establishing Conditions, Narrative, and Behavior Analysis
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1.0 Type II CE Credit This talk was filmed at the 2019 Hawaii Association for Behavior Analysis Conference
About the presentation:
Telling and listening to stories would seem remarkable, even bizarre, if observed in some other species. Commonplace in humans, however, such behavior has not received much attention from the natural-science viewpoint of behavior analysis, which has focused on more pragmatic behavior-environment relations. The potency of stories for maintaining the behavior of reading and listening can be understood in terms of establishing stimuli that potentiate particular consequences of reading/listening as reinforcers; A special diagramming technique provides a systematic account of this while also showing how a story is organized (It is also useful for the analysis of behavior-analytic interventions). Narratives are typically more formalized stories that are commonly understood as providing coherence, with implications ranging from the clinical to the political to the cultural. This points to the discrimination of coherence, itself, as a reinforcing consequence. Behavioral interventions are well-characterized as stories that need to fit within the more extended narratives of the individuals involved, and of the surrounding culture.
Learning Objectives
At the conclusion of the presentation, the participants will be able to:
1. Understand the importance of stories and how they are organized.
2. Determine how verbal behavior plays a role in story telling.
3. Identify the benefits of a narrative for story telling.
