VB- CH. 9&10

Question 1

What are the “two facts that emerge from our survey of the basic functional relations in verbal behavior”?

Answer 1

a. The strength of a single response may be, and usually is, a function of more than one variable.
b. A single variable usually affects more than one response.

Question 2

What happens “in the relatively trivial case,” what produces more interesting effects,

Answer 2

Two or more audiences have the same effect upon the same response

Question 3

Exemplified by a telephone number or a car registration number containing the sequence 1,2,3,4. One can learn such a number more easily because of earlier contingencies establishing the same response.

Answer 3

Mixed intraverbal

Question 4

When are two responses thematically related and what may we refer to as “formal” contributions to strength

Answer 4

a. When they are controlled by a common variable with respect to which they lack the point-to-point correspondence seen in echoic and textual behavior.
b. We may refer to sources involving echoic and textual responses.

Question 5

What does Skinner mean by the engineering task?

Answer 5

Evoking a given response in a given speaker at a given time.

Question 6

The process of ________ __________ can be classified in the following way.

Answer 6

Supplementary evocation

Question 7

When the operator can identify the response to be evoked, the supplementary stimulu is a _______.

Answer 7

prompt

Question 8

When the operator does not know the response even though it may be just as sharply specified by other circumstances, the supplement is a _______.

Answer 8

probe

Question 9

what are the four possibilities?

Answer 9

(1) Formal prompts, (2) thematic prompts, (3) formal probes, and (4) thematic probes.

Question 10

What is an echoic prompt?

Answer 10

When an intraverbal connection is inadequate, the prompter supplies him with a partial echoic stimulus.

Question 11

What is a disguised formal prompt

Answer 11

An echoic stimulus is concealed within a larger verbal response.

Question 12

The speaker who simply glances at his notes is using a ______ prompt.

Answer 12

textual

Question 13

What is a thematic prompt, better known as what

Answer 13

a. A supplemental source of strength in the form of a tact or intraverbal response.
b. It is better known as a hint.

Question 14

What are formal probes, including echoic and textual?

Answer 14

a. The echoic stimulus which may not always evoke a matching response.
b. It often evokes responses which fail to exhibit the point-to-point correspondence of the textual repertoire.

Question 15

What does the speaker frequently make the listener say

Answer 15

Something he would not otherwise say

Question 16

When can the listener be said to understand a speaker

Answer 16

If he simply behaves in an appropriate fashion.

Question 17

We are said to understand a language in that we respond how?

Answer 17

b. We respond according to pervious exposure to certain contingencies in a verbal environment

Question 18

how do we understand “in a trivial sense”?

Answer 18

To understand” is “to be able to say the same thing.”

Question 19

What does the phrase I understand describe?

Answer 19

When the listener can emit corresponding behavior such as might in the language in response to nonverbal or intraverbal stimuli.

Question 20

What is one of the principal effects of verbal behavior?

Answer 20

The strengthening of corresponding behavior in the listener.