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 speakers behavior
Audience
Listened 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 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, and intraverbal
3 types of duplic
Echoic, mimic, 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