Section 3 Flashcards
Discrimination
Occurs when limited spectrum of stimulus occasion a response.
Generalization
Occurs when a large spectrum of stimuli occasion a certain response.
2 types of generalization
Stimulus Generalization
Response Generalization
Stimulus Generalization
Antecedent Stimuli
Sharing aspects of the original Sd
Spectrum of stimuli that occasion a certain response.
Overgeneralization
Emitting a response appropriate to some context in an inappropriate context
Response Generalization
AKA Response Induction
Individual exhibits novel responses that are functionally equivalent to trained target response
7 ways to promote generalization
Common Stimuli Train Loosely Exemplar Training Mediation Indiscriminable Contingencies Negative Teaching Examples General Case Analysis
Maintenance
#Response Following the removal of an intervention Response remains in the individual's repertoire
Verbal Behavior
Skinner
Published in 1957
Private Events
Thoughts and Feelings
Inside the skin
Verbal Behavior Definition
Behavior is reinforced through the mediation of another persons behavior
Skinners 6 Elementary Verbal Operants
Echoic Mand Intraverbal Textual Transcription
Echoic
speaker repeats the verbal behavior of another speaker.
Verbal SD
Point to point correspondence
Formal Similarity
Mand
Controlled by MO’s
WANTS/Requests
Two Types of Mands
Regular Mand
Extended Mand
Intraverbal
Answering a question
Generalized conditioned reinforcement
Tact
Speaker has direct contact with through any of sense modes
Non-Verbal SD
4 types of tact extensions
Solistic
Metaphorical
Metonymical
Generic
Solistic Extension
Poor Language
Metaphorical Extension
Metaphors
“His heart is as black as coal”
Metonymical Extension
Verbal responses to novel stimuli that share non of the relevant features of the original stimulus