Unit 7

Question 1

A verbal operant is a relation between 3 things

Answer 1

(1) Verbal response
(2) Antecedents that evoke the response
(3) The effect on the listener

Question 2

Listener behavior is behavior: _____

Answer 2

Under the antecedent control of a mand to comply

Question 3

Multiple control: Verbal response: _____

Answer 3

Controlled by more than 1 environmental variable

Question 4

Convergent multiple control: _____

Answer 4

More than 1 antecedent variable affects the strength of a single verbal response

Question 5

Divergent multiple control: _____

Answer 5

A single antecedent variable affects the strength of more than just 1 verbal response

Question 6

Joint control involves: _____

Answer 6

Convergent control of a response by 2 concurrent variables

Question 7

Joint control is a special case of: _____

Answer 7

Multiple control

Question 8

Stimulus control transfer procedure for teaching verbal behavior uses: _____

Answer 8

Prompting and prompt fading

Question 9

Stimulus control transfer procedure for teaching verbal behavior:

What is it?: _____

Answer 9

Procedure that uses multiple control to turn a pure verbal operant into another pure verbal operant

Question 10

Private event: _____

Answer 10

Environmental event that can only be observed by the organism itself

Question 11

Public accompaniment of a private event: _____

Answer 11

Observable (public) stimulus that occurs along with a private event

Question 12

Collateral responses with a private event: _____

Answer 12

Observable behavior that reliably occurs with a private event

Question 13

Verbal conditional discrimination: _____

Answer 13

1 verbal stimulus alters the evocative effect of a 2nd verbal stimulus

Question 14

Goal of VB approach: _____

Answer 14

Build conversational and social skills

Question 15

Traditional analysis of language is focused on: _____

Answer 15

Response structure, form, and topography

Question 16

Skinner’s analysis of language is focused on: _____

Answer 16

Function of the verbal response

Question 17

Verbal operant 3-term contingency

Answer 17

A = EO/SD
B = Verbal response
C = Socially mediated consequence

Question 18

Mand, tact, intraverbal, codic, and duplic are the: _____

Answer 18

Primary types of verbal operants

Question 19

Autoclitic is a: _____

Answer 19

Secondary type of verbal operant

Question 20

Convergent multiple control is related to: _____

Answer 20

Stimulus generalization

Question 21

Divergent multiple control is related to: _____

Answer 21

Response generalization

Question 22

Mand 3-term contingency

Answer 22

A = EO for SR
B = Verbal response
C = A specific reinforcer

Question 23

Echoic 3-term contingency

Answer 23

A = Verbal SD
B = Matched vocal response
C = Generalized conditioned reinforcement

Question 24

Tact 3-term contingency

Answer 24

A = Nonverbal SD
B = Verbal response
C = Generalized conditioned reinforcement

Question 25

Intraverbal 3-term contingency

Answer 25

A = Verbal SD
B = Non-matching response
C = Generalized conditioned reinforcement