Unit 6 Flashcards
Behavior that is socially-mediated and that has been trained by a verbal community.
Verbal Behavior

• Speaking • Signing
• Pointing • Writing
• Gesturing
Forms of verbal behavior
“The individual emitting the verbal response.”
The speaker (verbalizer)
“The individual the speaker interacts with.”
The listener (mediator)
“Listeners who belong to a trained verbal community. ”
The audience
Elementary verbal operants
• Mands
• Tacts
• Intraverbals
• Duplics (echoic, copying a text, mimetic)
• Codics (textual, taking dictation, finger
spelling, etc.)
A verbal response that is evoked by an establishing operation and is maintained by a specific reinforcer.
Mand
A verbal response that is evoked by a non-verbal stimulus and is maintained by socially-mediated reinforcement.
Tact
A verbal response that is evoked by a verbal stimulus without point-to-point correspondence and with no formal similarity and that is maintained by socially-mediated reinforcement.
Intraverbal
A verbal response that is evoked by a verbal stimulus with point-to-point correspondence and formal similarity and that is maintained by socially- mediated reinforcement.
Duplic
Types of duplics
• Echoic (vocal imitation of a verbal response)
• Copying a text
• Mimetic (motor imitation of a verbal
response)
A verbal response that is evoked by a verbal stimulus with point-to-point correspondence but without formal similarity and that is maintained by socially-mediated reinforcement.
Codic
Types of codics
- Textual (reading a text)
- Taking dictation (transcriptive)
- Fingerspelling words heard
- Saying words seeing fingerspelled
A response evoked by a mand to comply and maintained by socially-mediated reinforcement.
Receptive Language
Verbal behavior that is reinforced by a verbal community based on what is being selected or pointed to.
Selection-based verbal behavior
Verbal behavior that is reinforced by a verbal community based on the topography (form or shape) of the verbal response.
Topography-based verbal behavior
Skinner’s analysis of VB
Function