Unit 6

Question 1

Behavior that is socially-mediated and that has been trained by a verbal community.

Answer 1

Verbal Behavior

Question 2


• Speaking • Signing
• Pointing • Writing
• Gesturing

Answer 2

Forms of verbal behavior

Question 3

“The individual emitting the verbal response.”

Answer 3

The speaker (verbalizer)

Question 4

“The individual the speaker interacts with.”

Answer 4

The listener (mediator)

Question 5

“Listeners who belong to a trained verbal community. ”

Answer 5

The audience

Question 6

Elementary verbal operants

Answer 6

• Mands
• Tacts
• Intraverbals
• Duplics (echoic, copying a text, mimetic)
• Codics (textual, taking dictation, finger
spelling, etc.)

Question 7

A verbal response that is evoked by an establishing operation and is maintained by a specific reinforcer.

Answer 7

Mand

Question 8

A verbal response that is evoked by a non-verbal stimulus and is maintained by socially-mediated reinforcement.

Answer 8

Tact

Question 9

A verbal response that is evoked by a verbal stimulus without point-to-point correspondence and with no formal similarity and that is maintained by socially-mediated reinforcement.

Answer 9

Intraverbal

Question 10

A verbal response that is evoked by a verbal stimulus with point-to-point correspondence and formal similarity and that is maintained by socially- mediated reinforcement.

Answer 10

Duplic

Question 11

Types of duplics

Answer 11

• Echoic (vocal imitation of a verbal response)
• Copying a text
• Mimetic (motor imitation of a verbal
response)

Question 12

A verbal response that is evoked by a verbal stimulus with point-to-point correspondence but without formal similarity and that is maintained by socially-mediated reinforcement.

Answer 12

Codic

Question 13

Types of codics

Answer 13

• Textual (reading a text)
• Taking dictation (transcriptive)
• Fingerspelling words heard
• Saying words seeing fingerspelled

Question 14

A response evoked by a mand to comply and maintained by socially-mediated reinforcement.

Answer 14

Receptive Language

Question 15

Verbal behavior that is reinforced by a verbal community based on what is being selected or pointed to.

Answer 15

Selection-based verbal behavior

Question 16

Verbal behavior that is reinforced by a verbal community based on the topography (form or shape) of the verbal response.

Answer 16

Topography-based verbal behavior

Question 17

Skinner’s analysis of VB

Answer 17

Function

Question 18

All oral and non-oral forms of communication

Answer 18

VERBAL BEHAVIOR

Question 19

mostly maintained by social reinforcement of some type

Answer 19

verbal behavior

Question 20

OPERANT bx that is reinforced through mediation by other persons

Answer 20

verbal behavior

Question 21

___________ is all LISTENERS who belong to a TRAINED community

Answer 21

audience

Question 22

under antecedent control of non-verbal stimulus

Answer 22

TACT

Question 23

NAME/LABEL MANY THINGS….nouns, verbs, descriptions, relations, functions of items

Answer 23

TACT

Question 24

under antecedent control of an EO

Answer 24

mand

Question 25

can be viewed as asking for something the speaker wants/needs, has a need for at the moment

Answer 25

mand

Question 26

under control of VERBAL STIMULI

Answer 26

duplic

Question 27

same form/topography; same word, same sign

Answer 27

duplic

Question 28

identical, the stimulus and the response

Answer 28

duplic

Question 29

3 types: echoic, copy text, mimetic (motor imitation)

Answer 29

duplic

Question 30

mimicking a VOCAL verbal unit

Answer 30

echoic

Question 31

the responses will be exactly like the antecedent verbal stimuli

Answer 31

echoic

Question 32

writing what you see... EXACTLY

Answer 32

copy text

Question 33

imitating a non-verbal vocal unit, like a sign or gesture

Answer 33

mimetic

Question 34

antecedent stimuli is verbal (not necessarily vocal)

Answer 34

codic

Question 35

``` is identical (point to point correspondence) not same topography/form ```

Answer 35

codic

Question 36

reading text transcribing finger spelling what you hear saying what you see finger spelled

Answer 36

codic

Question 37

under antecedent control of verbal stimuli not identical and doesn't share form/topography the stimuli and response look totally different

Answer 37

intraverbals

Question 38

under antecedent control mand to comply

Answer 38

receptive language

Question 39

Skinner’s view of language:

Answer 39

functional

Question 40

VB is...

Answer 40

operant

Question 41

form of communication maintained mostly by social reinforcement

Answer 41

Verbal Behavior is

Question 42

individual emitting the verbal response

Answer 42

speaker

Question 43

the individual the speaker interacts with

Answer 43

listener