This investigation tested the effects of 2 different E interventions on the conditioning of affective verbal behavior. The interview was divided into 3 10-minute periods: operant level, acquisition, and extinction. During acquisition E either echoed S's affective self-reference or paraphrased its content. In a control treatment, E arbitrarily echoed or paraphrased a comparable number of nonaffective comments. Following extinction Ss listed all affective words they remembered E saying. Results indicated that the paraphrase was significantly most effective in influencing Ss' verbal behavior. The paraphrase group also recalled a significantly greater number of affective words expressed by E. The results were interpreted as indicating the dominant role of discriminative stimuli in verbal conditioning performance.
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