ABSTRACT
This conclusion presents some closing thoughts on the concepts discussed in the preceding chapters of this book. The book focuses on how the learning principles and phenomena apply to behavior that is uniquely human; if not in type, at least in the extent to which humans exhibit it. Humans engage in complex social interactions in which verbal behavior has a critical role. Moreover, verbal behavior is highly varied. The form it takes differs considerably from one region to another. Linguistic behavior refers to the behavior of either a speaker or a listener. Someone asking for a glass of water is engaging in verbal behavior and is a speaker. Process of self-editing often can be inferred when there is a lengthy pause during or just before the start of a speech episode. Metacontingencies may be either technological or ceremonial. An invasion by another society provides a technological metacontingency in which resistance is a group behavior that may stop the invasion.
