Unit 9 Flashcards
Verbal behavior: _____
Communicative behavior reinforced by a member of the same verbal community
Speaker: _____
Individual who emits a verbal response
Listener: _____
Individual who provides antecedents and consequences for a speaker’s behavior
Audience: _____
Listeners in a trained verbal community
Verbal episode: _____
Basic speaker-listener unit of verbal behavior
Cultural selection: _____
Successful practices passed from one generation to the next
Selection-based verbal behavior: _____
Speaker selects a stimulus; listener responds based on the selection
Topography-based verbal behavior: _____
Each speaker response form is different; listener responds based on the topography
Touching, pointing to, handing over or clicking a picture: examples of: _____
Selection-based response forms
Saying words, forming signs, writing words: examples of: _____
Topography-based response forms
Verbal stimulus: _____
Stimulus that is the result of verbal behavior
Verbal operants:
Have point-to-point correspondence: _____
Codic and duplic
List the elementary verbal operants: _____
Mand, tact, duplic, codic, intraverbal
3 types of duplics: _____
Echoic, mimetic, copying text
Verbal operant:
Evoked by establishing operation: _____
Mand
Verbal operant:
Evoked by non-verbal stimulus: _____
Tact
Mand:
Verbal operant maintained by: _____
Specific reinforcer
Tact, Intraverbal, Duplic, Codic:
Verbal operants maintained by: _____
Generalized conditioned reinforcement
Point-to-point correspondence: _____
Beginning, middle, and end of a verbal response match with that of an antecedent verbal stimulus
Formal similarity: _____
Verbal antecedent and response have point-to-point correspondence and share the same modality
Verbal operant:
Evoked by verbal stimulus with formal similarity: _____
Duplic
Vocal duplic: _____
Echoic
Signed duplic: _____
Mimetic
Written duplic: _____
Copying text
Verbal operant:
Evoked by verbal stimulus with point-to-point correspondence but no formal similarity: _____
Codic
Verbal operant:
Evoked by verbal stimulus with no point-to-point correspondence: _____
Intraverbal
Multiple control: _____
Verbal response under the control of more than one environmental variable
Listener behavior: _____
Non-verbal behavior under the antecedent control of a mand to comply
7 Dimensions of ABA:
BAT CAGE or GET A CAB
Behavioral
Applied or analytic
Technological
Conceptually systematic
Applied or analytic
Generality
Effective
7 Dimensions of ABA:
Generality: _____
Requires effects of interventions to maintain and spread to other situations and behaviors
7 Dimensions of ABA:
Effective: _____
Requires behavior to change in the intended direction and to a practical degree
7 Dimensions of ABA:
Technological: _____
Requires clear and complete descriptions that can be understood by others
7 Dimensions of ABA:
Applied: _____
Requires a focus on socially significant human behavior
7 Dimensions of ABA:
Conceptually systematic: _____
Requires procedures are linked to basic behavioral principles
7 Dimensions of ABA:
Analytic: _____
Requires identification of functional relations between behavior and environmental events through systematic manipulations
7 Dimensions of ABA:
Behavioral: _____
Requires a focus on behavior in its own right as a target for change
Contingency-shaped behavior: _____
Shaped through direct contact with environmental contingencies
Rule-governed behavior: _____
Controlled by descriptions of contingencies (rules)
Radical behaviorism: Includes and analyzes: _____
All forms of behavior including thoughts, feelings, and verbal behavior
Response generalization: _____
Spread of the effects of reinforcement to other similar unreinforced responses
