VB- Ch. 6 Conditions affecting Stim Control

Question 1

Generalized reinforcement

Answer 1

the key to successful, practical and scientific discourse

Question 2

When the correspondence with a stimulating situation is sharply maintained, and when the listener’s inferences regarding the objective situation are most reliable

Answer 2

When a response is objective or valid

Question 3

what do we call the response when the controlling relation is warped or distorted?

Answer 3

subjective, biased, prejudice, or wishful

Question 4

A special measure of generalized reinforcement that lead to a distortion of stimulus control.

Answer 4

Distorted tact

Question 5

A response which has received a special measure of reinforcement is emitted in the absence of the circumstances under which it is characteristically reinforced. This is called a lie.

Answer 5

How stimulus control is stretched and invented.

Question 6

Characteristic reinforcement only when a response corresponds to a particular state of affairs.

Answer 6

Pure tact

Question 7

A mixture of controlling relations characteristic of both tact and mand.

Answer 7

Impure tact

Question 8

When special consequences produce a complete break with the stimulus.

Answer 8

A response is invented or made up

Question 9

A function of, or identical with, our tendency to act upon the verbal stimuli which the speaker provides

Answer 9

Belief

Question 10

An important fact about VB

Answer 10

The speaker and the listener may reside in the same skin