Unit 8

Question 1

Operant behavior reinforced through the mediation of other persons.

Answer 1

Verbal behavior

Question 2

The individual emitting the verbal response.

Answer 2

Speaker

Question 3

The individual the speaker interacts with.

Answer 3

Listener

Question 4

Composed of listeners who belong to a trained verbal community.

Answer 4

Audience

Question 5

Tact
Mand
Duplic
Codic
Intraverbal

Answer 5

Elementary Verbal Operants

Question 6

Under the antecedent control of a non-verbal stimulus.

Answer 6

Tact

Question 7

Under the antecedent control of an establishing operation (EO).

Answer 7

Mand

Question 8

Under the antecedent control of verbal stimuli with point-to-point correspondence with formal similarity to the response.

Answer 8

Duplic

Question 9

Echoics (vocal imitation repeating)
Copying a text
Mimetics (motor imitation)

Answer 9

Types of Duplic

Question 10

The repeating of a vocal verbal unit.

Answer 10

Echoic

Question 11

Has point-to-point correspondence and formal similarity to the written verbal stimulus.

Answer 11

Copying a Text

Question 12

The imitation of a physical movement that is also a non-vocal verbal unit.

Answer 12

Mimetic

Question 13

Under the antecedent control of verbal stimuli with point-to-point correspondence but without formal similarity.

Answer 13

Codic

Question 14

Under the antecedent control of verbal stimuli without point-to-point correspondence and with no formal similarity.

Answer 14

Intraverbal

Question 15

Under the antecedent control of a mand to comply.

Answer 15

Receptive Language

Question 16

The speaker selects a stimulus in the environment by pointing or finding a picture and handing it to the listener.

Answer 16

Selection-based Verbal Behavior

Question 17

The listener discriminates what the speaker is “saying” based on the topography of the verbal behavior.

Answer 17

Topography-based Verbal Behavior

Question 18

An operant class that includes within it other classes that can themselves function as operants.

Answer 18

Higher-order class

Question 19

A higher-order operant response class that is under the control of verbal antecedent stimuli.

Answer 19

Rule-Governed Behavior

Question 20

Alter the evocative or abative effect of other antecedent stimuli.

Answer 20

Function-Altering Effects of Rules

Question 21

Behavior acquired via immediate reinforcement contingencies.

Answer 21

Contigency-Shaped Behavior