VB- Ch. 7 The audience

Question 1

what is an audience

Answer 1

a discriminative stimulus in the presence of which verbal behavior is characteristically reinforced and in the presence of which, therefore, it is characteristically strong.

Question 2

how is the listener an audience

Answer 2

Insofar as the listener stimulates the speaker prior to the emission of verbal behavior, we may speak of him as the audience.

Question 3

the communities which establish the reinforcing contingencies of the so-called “languages” –English, French, Chinese, and so on.

Answer 3

Which audiences control the largest subdivisions of vb

Question 4

Within a single language community many jargons, patois, cants, and technical vocabularies are controlled by

Answer 4

special audiences

Question 5

What is the third function of an audience

Answer 5

To select a subject matter

Question 6

What is a distant audience?

Answer 6

Any discriminative stimulus associated with a deferred reinforcement.

Question 7

What is a negative audience

Answer 7

An audience in the presence of which verbal behavior is punished

Question 8

what are among the effects of excessive or inconsistent punishment?

Answer 8

many neurotic symptoms, including the “repression” of some areas of verbal behavior.

Question 9

How (or when) must the speaker be regarded as an audience for his own vb

Answer 9

Insofar as he automatically reinforces himself

Question 10

What does the process of discrimination not depend on

Answer 10

The process of discrimination does not depend upon any “real” or “functional” connection.