VB- Ch. 12 Autoclitic

Question 1

What is the direction that an analysis of behavior must first move?

Answer 1

Converting the speaker into an interested bystander is certainly the direction.

Question 2

what are “observable features of verbal behavior which can most effectively be studied with the instruments of analysis already in our possession”?

Answer 2

Order, design, and “deliberate” composition are observable features.

Question 3

what is the point about part of the behavior of the organism as a variable in controlling another part and what are the two systems of responses?

Answer 3

One based upon the other. The upper level can only be understood in terms of its relations to the lower.

Question 4

What may the speaker acquire, in other words, what are descriptive autoclitics?

Answer 4

Verbal behavior descriptive of his own behavior.

Question 5

The contingencies necessary for self-descriptive behavior are arranged by whom?

Answer 5

Arranged by the community when it has reason to ask, for the answers are useful in many ways.

Question 6

What is the kind of self-descriptive behavior which needs further study

Answer 6

Arises from a special effect on the listener

Question 7

Again, what are descriptive autoclitics and why the term “autoclitic”?

Answer 7

When associated with other verbal behavior effective upon the same listener at the same time.

Question 8

what is a very important group of responses serve what autoclitic function

Answer 8

qualifying the tact in such a way that the intesity or direction of the listener’s behavior is modified.

Question 9

How is “No!” an example of a qualifying autoclitic and how does it have the force of a mand?

Answer 9

The effect of no is clear when it is emitted as a mand specifying the cessation of nonverbal behavior on the part of the listener.

Question 10

What are two very common quantifying autoclitics?

Answer 10

The article “a” and “the”