VB- Ch. 11

Question 1

Know the four conditions under which fragmentary responses recombine?

Answer 1

a. Children and adults learning a language for the first time.
b. Illness or fatigue and as the effect of certain drugs, of which alcohol is best known.
c. Strong competing behavior, as when the speaker is “paying little attention to what he says.”
d. Speech which is emitted under strong aversive pressure or as a function of any of the variables strengthening behavior without respect to form.

Question 2

What three things are we concerned with?

Answer 2

a. The types of operants contributing fragments
b. The geometry or mechanics of rearrangement
c. The possible effect of resulting forms upon the listener, of whom the speaker himself may be an example.

Question 3

a. A phrase blend accounts for many subtle ______

b. “We are zealous of our reputation, zealous appears to have arisen from two states of affairs.

Answer 3

malaprop

Question 4

What kind of blending is multiple causation responsible for?

Answer 4

Formal blending which involves elements below the phonetic level.

Question 5

Know when two responses are likely to be strong, and what many blends are mixtures of?

Answer 5

a. When they are both functions of the same variable.

b. two or more tacts under the control of the same stimulus.

Question 6

What types of recombined fragments are usually nonsense?

Answer 6

A wholly new and ineffective form of response emerges or, if the speaker sees it is nonsense in time, is caught before it is completed.

Question 7

When does the blend attract the most attention

Answer 7

a. When it supplies a new response.

Question 8

When these so called “metatheses” produce effective though irrelevant patterns.

Answer 8

A spoonerism