Unit 8

Question 1

Traditional Views of Language

Answer 1

Focus on the structure of language

Question 2

Skinnerian View of Language

Answer 2

Focus on the function of language

Question 3

Verbal behavior

Answer 3

Operant behavior reinforced through the mediation of other persons

Question 4

Forms of Verbal Behavior

Answer 4

Speaking
Signing
Pointing 
Writing
Gesturing 
Touching

Question 5

Speaker

Answer 5

The individual emitting the verbal response

Question 6

Listener

Answer 6

The individual the speaker interacts with

Question 7

Role of the Listener

Answer 7

Usually provides the antecedents and consequences for the speaker’s verbal behavior

Question 8

Audience

Answer 8

Composed of listeners who belong to a trained verbal community

Question 9

Cultural Selection

Answer 9

The type of selection involved in the evolution of verbal behavior

Question 10

Elementary Verbal Operants

Answer 10

Tact
Mand
Duplic
Codic
Intraverbal

Question 11

Tact

Answer 11

Naming, labeling, describingUnder the antecedent control of a non-verbal stimulus

Question 12

Mand

Answer 12

Requesting, asking, commandingUnder the antecedent control ofan establishing operation (EO)

Question 13

Duplic

Answer 13

Under the antecedent control of verbal stimuliwith point-to-point correspondence andwith formal similarity to the response

Question 14

Types of Duplics

Answer 14

Echoics
Copying a text
Mimetics

Question 15

Echoic

Answer 15

The repeating of a vocal verbal unit( Repeating, Vocal imitation)

Question 16

Copying a Text

Answer 16

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

Question 17

Mimetic

Answer 17

The imitation of a physical movement that is also a non-vocal verbal unit (Motor Imitation)

Question 18

Codic

Answer 18

Under the antecedent control of verbal stimuliwith point-to-point correspondencebut withoutformal similarity

Question 19

Types of Codics

Answer 19

Textual
Taking dictation
Finger spelling words heard
Saying words seen finger spelled

Question 20

Intraverbal

Answer 20

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

Question 21

Multiple Control

Answer 21

When the strength of a single response is a function of more than one variable

Question 22

Receptive Language

Answer 22

Under the antecedent control of a mand to comply

Question 23

Selection-based Verbal Behavior

Answer 23

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

Question 24

Topography-based Verbal Behavior

Answer 24

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

Question 25

Higher-order class

Answer 25

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

Question 26

Rule-Governed Behavior

Answer 26

A higher-orderoperant response class thatis under the control of verbal antecedent stimuli(known as rules)

Question 27

Function-Altering Effects of Rules

Answer 27

Alter the evocative or abative effect of other antecedent stimuli

Question 28

Contingency-Shaped Behavior

Answer 28

Behavior acquired via immediate reinforcement contingencies