Unit 8

Question 1

An elementary verbal operant involving a response that is evoked by a verbal discriminative stimulus that has point-to-point correspondence and formal similarity with the response.

Answer 1

Echoic

Question 2

A situation that occurs when the controlling antecedent stimulus and the response or response product (a) share the same sense mode (that is, both stimulus and response are visual, auditory, or tactile) and (b) physically resemble each other.

Answer 2

Formal similarity

Question 3

Tact responses prompted by specific verbal instructions.

Answer 3

Impure tact

Question 4

Tact responses prompted by specific verbal instructions.

Answer 4

Listener

Question 5

An elementary verbal operant that is evoked by an MO and followed by specific reinforcement.

Answer 5

Mand

Question 6

A type of stimulus-to-stimulus relation in which the learner, without any prior training or reinforcement for doing so, selects a comparison stimulus that is the same as the sample stimulus (for example, A = A).

Answer 6

Reflexive conditioned motivating operation

Question 7

Someone who engages in verbal behavior by emitting mands, tacts, intraverbals, autoclitics, and so on.

Answer 7

Speaker

Question 8

A group of stimuli that all have the same functional effect on a particular behavior. For example, each stimulus in a stimulus class may function as a discriminative stimulus for a particular behavior.

Answer 8

Stimulus class

Question 9

A situation in which the frequency, latency, duration, or amplitude of a behavior is altered by the presence or absence of an antecedent stimulus.

Answer 9

Stimulus control

Question 10

A stimulus that acquires its MO effectiveness by being paired with another MO and has the same value-altering and behavior-altering effects as the MO with which it was paired.

Answer 10

Surrogate conditioned motivating operation

Question 11

An elementary verbal operant evoked by a nonverbal discriminative stimulus and followed by generalized conditioned reinforcement.

Answer 11

Tact

Question 12

An environmental variable that, as a result of a learning history, establishes (or abolishes) the reinforcing effectiveness of another stimulus and evokes (or abates) the behavior that has been reinforced by that other stimulus.

Answer 12

Transitive conditioned motivating operation

Question 13

Behavior whose reinforcement is mediated by a listener; includes both vocal-verbal behavior (such as saying “Water, please” to get water) and nonvocal-verbal behavior (pointing to a glass of water to get water).

Answer 13

Verbal behavior