Cooper Ch 25 VB

Question 1

Behavior that is reinforced through the mediation of another persons behavior.

Answer 1

How skinner defined VB.

Question 2

It involves social interactions between speakers and listeners, whereby leakers gain access to reinforcement and and control their environment through the behavior of listeners.

Answer 2

What VB involves.

Question 3

A unit of analysis of VB is the functional relation between a type of responding an the same independent variables that control nonverbal behavior, namely motivating variables, discriminative stimuli and consequences.

Answer 3

Verbal operant

Question 4

A verbal operant for which the form of the response is under the functional control of motivating operations and specific reinforcement.

Answer 4

Mand

Question 5

A verbal operant under the functional control of a nonverbal discriminative stimulus and it produces generalized conditioned reinforcement.

Answer 5

Tact

Question 6

Operant is controlled by a verbal discriminative stimulus that has point to point correspondence and formal similarity with response.

Answer 6

Echoic.

Question 7

Operant occurs when a verbal discriminative stimulus evokes a verbal response that does not have point to point correspondence with the verbal stimulus.

Answer 7

Intraverbal

Question 8

Operant has point to point correspondence but not formal similarity between the stimulus and the response product.

Answer 8

Textual

Question 9

Consists of writing and spelling words that are spoken.

Answer 9

Transcription

Question 10

A discriminative stimulus in the presence of which verbal behavior is characteristically reinforced and on the presence of which, therefore, it is strong.

Answer 10

Audience

Question 11

Indicates that an effective consequence can occur without someone providing it.

Answer 11

Automatic reinforcement

Question 12

The Novel stimulus shares all the relevant or defining features of the original stimulus.

Answer 12

Generic extension

Question 13

The novel stimulus shares some but not all of the relevant features associated with the original stimulus.

Answer 13

Metaphorical extension

Question 14

How a novel stimulus resembles a stimulus previously present when a response was reinforced.

Answer 14

Tact extensions

Question 15

The occurrence of a single verbal response is a function of more than one variable

Answer 15

Convergent multiple control

Question 16

Occurs when a single antecedent variable affects the strength of many responses.

Answer 16

Divergent multiple control

Question 17

When a speakers own verbal behavior functions as an SD or an MO for additional speaker verbal behavior.

Answer 17

Autoclitic