Chapter 25: Verbal Behavior

Question 1

Anyone who functions as a discriminative stimulus evoking verbal behavior. Different audiences may control different verbal behavior about the same topic because of a differential reinforcement history. Teens may describe the same event in different ways when talking to peers versus parents.

Answer 1

Audience-

Question 2

a secondary verbal operant in which some aspect of a speaker’s own verbal behavior functions as an Sd or an MO for additional speaker verbal behavior. The autoclitic relation can be thought of as a verbal behaviour about verbal behavior.

Answer 2

Autoclitic-

Question 3

punishment that occurs independent of the social mediation by others (i.e. a response product serves as a punisher independent of the social environment)

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Automatic punishment

Question 4

an elementary verbal operant that is evoked by a nonvocal verbal discriminative stimulus that has point-to-point correspondence and formal similarly with the controlling response.

Answer 4

Copying a text-

Question 5

an elementary verbal operant involving a response that is evoked by a verbal discriminative stimulus that has point-to-point correspondence and formal similarity with the stimulus

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Echoic-

Question 6

a situation that occurs when the controlling antecedent stimulus and the response or response product a. Share the same sense mode (e.g. both stimulus and response are visual auditory or tactile) and b physically resemble each other. Ther verbal relations with formal similarity are echoic, comping a text and imitation as it relates to a sign language

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Formal similarity

Question 7

a tact evoked by a novel stimulus that shares all of the relevant or defining features associated with the original stimulus

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Generic (tact) extension

Question 8

a verbal operant involving a response that is evoked by both an MO and nonverval stimuli; thus the response is part mand and part tact

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Impure tact-

Question 9

an elementary verbal operant that is evoked by a verbal discriminate stimulus tan that does not have a point-to-point correspondence with that verbal stimulus

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Intraverbal-

Question 10

someone who provides R+ for verbal behavior. A listener may also serve as a n audience evoking verbal behavior

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Listener

Question 11

An elementary verbal operant that is evoked by an MO and followed by specific reinforcement

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Mand

Question 12

a tack evoked by a novel stimulus that shares some, but not all of the relevant features of the original stimulus

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Metaphorical (tact) extension

Question 13

a tact evoked by a novel stimulus that shares none of the relevant features of the original stimulus configurations, but some irrelevant yet related features has acquired stimulus control

Answer 13

Metonymical (tact) extension

Question 14

there are two types of multiple control (a) convergent multiple control occurs when a single verbal response is a function of more than one variable and (b) what is said has more than one antecedent source of control. Divergent multiple control occurs when a single andtescednt variable affects the strength of more than one responses .

Answer 14

Multiple control

Question 15

a relation between the stimulus and response or response product that occurs when the beginning middle and end of the verbal stimulus match the beginning middle and end of the verbal response. The verbal relations with point to point correspondence are echoic, coping a text, imitation as it relates to sign language, textual and transcription

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Point-to-point correspondence

Question 16

Events that take place in ones own skin- others are not privy to this information

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Private events

Question 17

a verbal response evoked by a stimulus property that is only indirectly related to the proper tact relation (e.g. Yogi Bera’s classic malapropism: baseball is ninety percent mental; the other have is physical”)

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Solstice (tact) extension-

Question 18

someone who engages in verbal behavior by emitting mands, tacts, intraverbals, autoclitics and so on. A speaker is also someone who uses sign language, gestures, signals, written words, codes, pictures or angry form of verbal behavio r

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Speaker

Question 19

an elementary verbal operant evoked by a nonverbal discriminative stimulus and followed by generalized conditioned R+

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Tact

Question 20

an elementary verbal operant involving a response that is evoked by a verbal discriminative stimulus that has point-to-point correspondence, but not formal similarity, between the stimulus and the response product.

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Textual-

Question 21

an elementary verbal operant involving a spoken verbal stimulus that evokes a written, typed or fingerspelled response. Like that extual there is point-to-point correspondence between the stimulus and the response product but no formal similarity.

Answer 21

Transcription-

Question 22

behavior whose R+ is mediated by a listener; includes both vocal-verbal behavior (e.g. saying “water please “ to get water) and non vocal-verbal behavior (pointing to a glass of water to get water). Encompassess the subject matter usually treated as language and topics such as thinking , grammar, composition and understanding.

Answer 22

Verbal behavior-

Question 23

type or class of behavior as distinct from a particular response instance

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Verbal operant-