G11 Use Skinner's Analysis to Teach Verbal Behavior Part 2

Question 1

A prerequisite for teaching vocal manding is

Answer 1

Vocal imitation

Question 2

To teach vocal imitation, begin by

Answer 2

Presenting the reinforcer and saying “say…” as you say its name

Question 3

One initial strategy for teaching a child to echo or vocally imitate is to

Answer 3

Pair teacher vocalizations with reinforcing activities

Question 4

You want to teach vocal imitation. However, your student only rarely makes babbling sounds and never approximates a word. You should begin by

Answer 4

Reinforcing all babbling you hear and pair fun activities with sounds that you make

Question 5

A teacher is eating popcorn in her classroom as her students return from the playground. A few of her students approach her, clearly interested in the popcorn. The teacher takes the opportunity to encourage and reinforce verbal behavior. Which of the following exemplifies echoic training?

Answer 5

The teacher says “what do you want?” and then after a pause says, “say, popcorn”. A student says popcorn and the teacher gives some to the student.

Question 6

Complex verbal skills can be taught to a child who can emit a word under echoic stimulus control by

Answer 6

Prompting the child to repeat a word until the response form is established, and then bringing the same response form under control of other stimuli such as object, questions, and motivating operations

Question 7

Sundberg and Partington (1998) recommend that you teach a student to use augmentative devices

Answer 7

Only after you are certain the child cannot learn to talk and does not have the manual dexterity to sign.

Question 8

The most important variable for shaping vocal speech is

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A high rate of vocalizations of any kind by the student.

Question 9

Before a student will be successful in echoic training, he or she must first have acquired

Answer 9

A generalized imitative repertoire

Question 10

Vocal play is important

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All the above:
For teaching intraverbals, mands, and tacts.
For strengthening the vocal cords and teaching the child to vocally imitate.

Question 11

Which of the following exemplifies echoic training?

Answer 11

A student says swing after hearing his teacher say “say swing” and is immediately put on the swing

Question 12

Echoic training can be combined with mand training by

Answer 12

Contriving MOs or identifying currently operating ones and prompting the child to repeat words relevant to those MOs

Question 13

One initial strategy for teaching a child to echo or vocally imitate is to

Answer 13

Reinforce any vocalization

Question 14

When a child can echo or vocally imitate, teach

Answer 14

Speech