VB Ch. 4 Control by verbal stimuli Flashcards
What is a generalized conditioned reinforcer
Any event which characteristically precedes many different reinforcers can be used as a reinforcer to bring behavior under the control of all appropriate conditions of deprivation and aversive stimulation.
Two common forms of generalized conditioned reinforcer
Approval and escape from or avoidance of aversive stimulation.
What are the three principle categories to be discussed
echoic, textual, and intraverbal behavior.
What is echoic behavior
A verbal operant characteristically produces responses in the listener showing a point-to-point correspondence between the sound of the stimulus and the sound of the response
What is a pathological EB called
“echolalia,” and in which a bit of speech heard by the patient is repeated possibly many times.
What is educational reinforcement
Reinforcement from the community in the form of praise or approval. GCR
What is a textual behavior
A vocal response is under the control of a nonauditory verbal stimulus
Interested persons supply generalized conditioned reinforces for vocal responses which stand in certain required relations to the marks on a page
A reader
What is reading
Reading is not an ability or a capacity but a tendency
verbal behavior under the control of verbal stimuli
Text
either in the copying of written material or in taking dictation-receives many special educational and economic reinforcements and continues to be sustained by other consequences in everyday life.
Transcription and the two forms of copying written material or taking dictation
Intraverbal behavior
verbal response show no point-to-point correspondence with the verbal stimuli which evoke them.
What does contiguous usage refer to
refers to the tendency to occur together
How is translation a special form of IV
The stimuli are in on language and the response in another
In translation what is the commenest case of IV
the stimuli are in the new language, the responses in the old.
