October 23, 2016
Written by Maximus Peperkamp, M.S. Verbal Engineer
Dear Reader,
The first thing a scientist must do to point out the great difference
between Sound Verbal Behavior (SVB) and Noxious Verbal Behavior (NVB) is to
create an environment in which he or she controls the conditions that give rise
to one of these two universal response classes.
As psychology instructor and as a therapist I see myself primarily
as a scientist who provides a stable learning environment. In both jobs I make
sure that SVB increases and NVB is decreased. NVB is on an extinction schedule
and SVB is reinforced, celebrated and enhanced.
My results are very good. Students write wonderful papers in
which they describe how much they learn and enjoy my class and my clients slowly
recover from their mental health problems and become happy again. How is all of
this possible? I achieve this by changing the way in which we communicate. In doing
so I change the way in which we think.
It is inevitable that in class as well as in therapy we go
back and forth between SVB and NVB. In class it is at times as difficult as in
therapy and in therapy things are as much as matter of studying and learning as
in class. As our united focus improves we have more SVB and less NVB.
Even those students and clients who strongly resist and try to
distract from it are affected by SVB. It is only a matter of time before they
are able to acknowledge this. I calmly build everybody up and I don’t hold their
history of conditioning against them. Everybody knows that.
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