Psy 428 Test 6

Question 1

Circular explanation

Answer 1

The evidence for the explanation is the same as the behavior to be explained.

If the evidence for the frustration is the tantrum.

Question 2

Skinner’s definition of verbal Bx

Answer 2

Behavior that is reinforced through the mediation of others who have been specially trained to reinforce the behavior of the speaker.

Question 3

Meaning of verbal behavior

Answer 3

The variables of which behavior is a function.

Question 4

Verbal behavior as a name

Answer 4

1. emphasize the role of the individual speaker.
2. Stress that its operant behavior.
3. Was relatively unfamiliar in professions of speech and language

Question 5

Duplic

Answer 5

Echoic and copying texts. They both have point to point correspondence and formal similarity.

Question 6

Codic

Answer 6

Textual and transcription. Both have point to point correspondence but no formal similarity.

Question 7

Intraverbal

Answer 7

No point to point correspondence and no formal similarity

Question 8

Stimulus generalization

Answer 8

When an antecedent stimulus has a history of evoking a response that has been reinforced in its presence, the same type of behavior tends to be evoked by stimuli that share similar physical properties with the controlling antecedent stimulus.

Question 9

Tactic for promoting generalized behavior change.

teaching subject to respond to different stimulus and response examples.

Answer 9

1. Teach sufficient stimulus and response examples

Question 10

Promoting generalized behavior change.

Teaching examples that represent the full range of stimulus variations and response requirements in the generalized setting.

Answer 10

General case analysis

Question 11

Tactic for prompting generalized behavior

Including typical features of the generalization setting into the instructional setting.

Answer 11

Programming common stimuli

Question 12

Tactics for prompting generalized behavior change

Randomly varying no critical aspects of the instructional setting within and across teaching sessions.

Answer 12

Teach loosely

Question 13

Tactics for prompting behavior change

The learner cannot discriminate whether the next response will produce reinforcement.

Answer 13

Indiscriminately contingency

Question 14

Tactic for promoting generalized behavior.

Teach learner to recruit reinforcement. Give strategies to have subject get reinforcement

Answer 14

Teach the learner to recruit reinforcement

Question 15

Tactic for prompting generalized behavior change

Any stimulus made functional for the target behavior in the instructional setting that later prompts or aids the learner in performing the target behavior in the generalized setting

Answer 15

Contrived mediating stimulus/mediate generalization

Question 16

Tactic for prompting generalized behavior change

A behavior that serves to prompted or reinforce the target behavior in all the relevant forms, then the generalization of the target behavior is ensured.

Answer 16

Self monitoring skills

Question 17

Tactic for promoting generalized behavior change

a person who can improvise by emitting a variety of responses is more likely to solve problems encountered when a standard response form fails to obtain reinforcement.

Answer 17

Reinforce response variability

Question 18

Ethical questions

Answer 18

What is the right thing to do?
What is worth doing?
What does it mean to be a good behavior analyst?