Listening and understanding

摘要: Abstract The activities involved in mediating reinforcement for a speaker's behavior constitute only one phase of listener's reaction to verbal stimulation. Other phases include listening and understanding what speaker has said. It is argued that the relative subtlety these reason their careful scrutiny, not complete neglect. Listening conceptualized as functional relation obtaining between responding an organism stimulating object. A current instance regarded point evolution similar instances, whereby one's history perceptual activity may be existing interbehavior. Understanding reactions are similarly analyzed; however, they considerably more complex than due preponderance implicit this type. Implicit occurs by way substitute stimulation, analysis serviceability stimuli regard made. seeing, hearing, or otherwise reacting actual things presence “names” alone. The value inferential also discussed, with conclusion unless some attempt made elaborate on nature operation activities, apparent mediational listener merely asserted without explanation occurrence.