VB Ch. 5 Tact Flashcards
What is a tact
A verbal operant in which a response of given form is evoked by a particular object or event or property of an object or event
One that is established with a completely generalized reinforcement
A pure or an objective tact
Reinforcement supplied primarily because it establishes and maintains a particular form of behavior in the speaker.
Educational Reinforcement
What is the listener’s belief
The probability that the listener will take effective action with respect to a particular verbal stimulus.
When a novel stimulus may resemble a stimulus previously present when a response was reinforced
Extended tact
If the novel stimulus, although in some respects actually novel, is still a stimulus in the presence of which the community typically reinforces that type of response, if the stimulus contains all of the defining features of that tact relation, then the generalization (or extension as he called it in VB ) can be called…
Generic tact
When the response occurrence is based on stimulus properties or features that are a part of or resemble whatever the stimulus consists of, it is still not really a that stimulus, then the extension is…
A metaphorical extension
An extension of a tact occurs when a stimulus acquires control over the response because it frequently accompanies the stimulus upon which reinforcement is normally contingent.
A metonymy or metonymical extention
A tact is frequently extended when a person or thing is given a name
A nomination
control of a particular topography by a single property (or very small number of properties) of some nonverbal stimulus.
An abstraction or an abstract tact
A tact in which the response is under the control of a specific person or thing
Proper noun
a tact in which the response is under the control of a property defining a class of persons or things.
common noun
Words, parts of words, or groups of words on the one hand and things, parts of things, or groups of things on the other stand in a relation to each other
a referance
What is the relation of reference or meaning “so far as the speaker is concerned
The relation may be as empty as a logical convention or it may provide for the “intention” of the speaker.
What four ways does “the verbal community establish the contingencies of reinforcement which produce verbal responses to private stimuli?”
(A) public accompaniment
(B) collateral response
(C) The common properties.
(D) When a response is descriptive of the speaker’s own behavior.
