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
All oral and non-oral forms of communication
VERBAL BEHAVIOR
mostly maintained by social reinforcement of some type
verbal behavior
OPERANT bx that is reinforced through mediation by other persons
verbal behavior
___________ is all LISTENERS who belong to a TRAINED community
audience
under antecedent control of non-verbal stimulus
TACT
NAME/LABEL MANY THINGS….nouns, verbs, descriptions, relations, functions of items
TACT
under antecedent control of an EO
mand
can be viewed as asking for something the speaker wants/needs, has a need for at the moment
mand
under control of VERBAL STIMULI
duplic
same form/topography; same word, same sign
duplic
identical, the stimulus and the response
duplic
3 types: echoic, copy text, mimetic (motor imitation)
duplic
mimicking a VOCAL verbal unit
echoic
the responses will be exactly like the antecedent verbal stimuli
echoic
writing what you see… EXACTLY
copy text
imitating a non-verbal vocal unit, like a sign or gesture
mimetic
antecedent stimuli is verbal (not necessarily vocal)
codic
is identical (point to point correspondence) not same topography/form
codic
reading text
transcribing
finger spelling what you hear
saying what you see finger spelled
codic
under antecedent control of verbal stimuli
not identical and doesn’t share form/topography
the stimuli and response look totally different
intraverbals
under antecedent control
mand to comply
receptive language
Skinner’s view of language:
functional
VB is…
operant
form of communication
maintained mostly by social reinforcement
Verbal Behavior is
individual emitting the verbal response
speaker
the individual the speaker interacts with
listener
