CHP 14 VERBAL BEHAVIOR, RULE-FOLLOWING, AND CLINICAL BEHAVIOR ANALYSIS Flashcards
Echoic
a verbal operant in which the response resembles the verbal antecedent stimulus and is maintained w socially mediated reinforcers (mimicking)
Mand
a verbal operant occasioned by an establishing operation and is maintained by the verbally specified reinforcer (asking for someting that will satisfy a current need)
Tact
a verbal operant response occasioned by a nonverbal stimulus, maintained by social reinforcers (saying “water” in the presence of water)
when tacting, one describes the environment to others, and the others reinforce the verbal behavior
Intraverbal
a verbal operant occasioned by a verbal discriminative stimulus, but the form of the response doesn’t resemble that stim, maintained by a variety of socially mediated reinforcers (a conversation)
Symmetric relational responding
the behavior of relating two arbitrary stimuli as, in many ways, the same (use it when learning language and communicating verbally)
Multiple-exemplar training
teaching an individual to symmetrically relate arbitrary stimuli, over and over again, with multiple examples; it’s the way we learn symmetrical relational responding
Stimulus equivalence
DEMONSTRATING learning of the unidirectional relation between 3+ arbitrary stimuli (symmetrical relational responding is demonstrated between all stimuli).
Psychological function of verbal stimuli
the emotion-evoking function of verbal stimuli, despite those stimuli having never acquired Pavlovian conditioned-stimulus (CS) function
Rule-governed behavior
behavior influenced by a verbal description of the operative three-term contingency (antecedent-behavior-consequence)
contingency-shaped behavior
behavior acquired and maintained by interacting with the contingencies of reinforcement alone
Pliance
rule-governed behavior occuring because of socially mediated positive or negative reinforcers
Tracking
rule-following occuring because the instructions appear to correctly describe operant contingencies (reinforcement, extinction, or punishment) that operate in the world
Dark side of tracking
it constrains behavioral variability
ACT
Acceptance Commitment Therapy; it’s a behavioral approach to psychotherapy in which client’s rules about the causal nature of thoughts are therapeutically undermined, neutralizing the “thoughts cause behavior” rule
ACT tactics used to undermine belief that thoughts are important
meditation; defusion exercises (repeat words until they no longer have meaning); experiential avoidance exercises (conceptualize thoughts as backseat drivers that don’t control you)
