5018 Unit 1 Flashcards
An analysis of language from a behavior analytic viewpoint and contains no additional research
Verbal Behavior
Pavlov is to classical conditioning as Skinner is to
Operant Conditioning
Defined by their effect upon the environment
Operant
Behavior reinforced through the mediation of other people
Verbal Behavior
Antecedent Conditions
- State of deprivation
- Some aspect of environment
- Other verbal behavior
- Own verbal behavior
Consequence Conditions
- Related MO (deprivation, aversion)
2. Educational/ Social
The response is reinforced by a characteristic consequence and is under the control of relevant conditions of deprivation or aversive stimulation
Mand
Evoked by a particular object or event or property of an object or event
Tact
Responses under the control of audible or written verbal stimuli supplied by another person or the speaker himself showing no point-to-point correspondence with the verbal stimuli that evoke them
Intraverbal
Consequence of mand
Specific reinforcer (concrete/ social)
Consequence of tact
Educational/ social
Consequence of intraverbal
Educational/ social
Under the control of verbal stimuli in which the response generates a sound-pattern similar to that of the stimulus
Echoic
Consequence of Echoic
Generalized conditioned reinforcer
When antecedent conditions do not occur in isolation
Impure and Multiply Controlled Verbal Operants
Possible combinations of control
Multiple/ mixed antecedent control
Multiple/ mixed consequence control
Behavior based upon or depend upon other verbal behavior of the speaker and affects the listener by indicating a property of the speaker’s behavior or circumstances responsible for that property
Autoclitic
Teaches early communication skills using pictures
PECS
A way of organizing and presenting particular strategies in order to teach certain skills to children or adults with autism and other disabilities
Pyramid Approach to Education
Base Elements
Functional Activities
Powerful Reinforcers
Functional Communication
Contextually Inappropriate Behaviors
Top Elements
Generalization Effective Lessons Specific Teaching Strategies Error Correction Data Collection
Must occur between two people, speaker directs listener, listener mediates access to reinforcer
Communication
Phase I of PECS
How to communicate
Phase II of PECS
Increasing Spontaneity and Range
Phase IIIA of PECS
Simple Discrimination
Phase IIIB of PECS
Conditional Discrimination
Phase IV of PECS
Building Sentences
Phase V of PECS
Answering “what do you want?”
Phase VI of PECS
Commenting
