VB- Ch. 8 Verbal Operant Flashcards
six types of functional relations
Mand, tact, echoic, textual, intraverbal and the audience.
What must we know in order to classify behavior effectively
The circumstances under which it is emitted
Be able to know the four subheadings under this major heading
a. The same form of response in different types of operants
b. The same response in different media
c. The same response spoken or heard
d. The same response in different languages
“The ‘word’ as a unit of analysis is appropriate to” what rather than to what
the practices of the community rather than the behavior of the individual speaker.
A functional relation is more than what
more than a mere connection
How does attention as a variable strengthen vb without respect to form
Any verbal behavior which evokes attention is reinforced apart from other specific actions of the listener.
What is another aversive condition avoided by vb without respect to form
Silence
what is one type of silence which is aversive to the listener
The interpretation of a sustained discourse
what is a special case of avoiding silence
stalling
What process “naturally plays an important role in behavior defined in terms of the special way in which it achieves its effects
Operant conditioning
What does differential reinforcement do
Shapes up all verbal forms, and when a prior stimulus enters into the contingency, reinforcement is responsible for its resulting control
What is customary to emphasize
The rate at which such changes take place, and to record each case in a “learning curve
there is no relation between what and what?
between the energy of the behavior and the magnitude of the effect achieved.
what is the further provision
The listener must be responding in ways which have been conditioned precisely in order to reinforce the behavior of the speaker, we narrow our subject to what is traditionally recognized as the verbal field
