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title: "A Computer Model for Certain Classes of Verbal Behavior"
authors:
  - "George R. Kiss"
doi: ""
url: "https://ijcai.org/proceedings/1969/61"
pdf: "https://ijcai.org/proceedings/1969/0061.pdf"
venue: "Proceedings of the First International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence"
year: 1969
pages: "703-714"
track: "Psychological Modeling"
keywords:
---

# A Computer Model for Certain Classes of Verbal Behavior

George R. Kiss

*Proceedings of the First International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence*, pages 703-714.

## Abstract

A computer model of some classes of verbal behaviour is described. The general characteristic of the classes is that the subjects emit discrete verbal units but not continuous discourse. The concept of a word store is defined as a stochastic information retrieval system, implemented in the form of a network of stochastically interacting nodes. The word store is assumed to be a parallel processor which operates in conjunction with a serial processor in the human organism. The application of the model to word association, response sequences, learning processes, and satiati'on effects is discussed. The main data structure and functions of the computer program are described with some examples given in the POP-2 programming language. It is shown that the word store model fits qualitatively many of the phenomena in verbal behaviour, and an example of a quantitative comparison is shown.