Verbal Behavior Glossary_Mark Sundberg

Question 1

Verbal behavior

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・Behavior whose reinforcement is mediated by a listener.

Question 2

Audience

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・Anyone who functions as an SD for verbal behavior (includes self).

Question 3

Listener

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・Someone who provides reinforcement for verbal behavior.

Question 4

Speaker

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・Someone who engages in verbal behavior of any form including both vocal-verbal (e.g. mands, tacts, etc.)and non-vocal verbal (e.g. sign language, gestures, etc.)

Question 5

Automatic punishment

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・A type of conditioned punishment where a response product has punishing properties.

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Automatic reinforcement

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・A type of conditioned reinforcement where a response product has reinforcing properties.

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Formal similarity

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・Occurs when the controlling stimulus and response share the same sense mode and physically resemble each other.

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Point-to-point correspondence

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・Occurs when subdivisions or parts of the verbal stimulus control subdivisions or parts of the verbal response, or response product.

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Autoclitics

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・Verbal behavior about verbal behavior.

Question 10

Copying a text

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・An echoic in that a speaker copies the verbal behavior (written) of another speaker.

Question 11

Echoic

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・A verbal operant evoked by a verbal SD that has point-to-point correspondence and formal similarity with the response.

Question 12

Intraverbal

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・A verbal operant evoked by a verbal Sd that does not have point-to-point correspondence with that verbal stimulus.

Question 13

Mand

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・A verbal operant evoked by an MO and followed by specific reinforcement.

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Tact

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・Labeling a stimulus.

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Textual

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・The stimulus and response have point to point correspondence but no formal similarity when reading out loud.

Question 16

Transcription

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・A verbal operant involving a spoken verbal Sd that evokes a written, typed, or finger-spelled response; there is point-to-point correspondence between the stimulus and the response product, but no formal similarity.

Question 17

Impure tact

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・Verbal operant involving a response that is evoked by both an MO and a nonverbal stimulus, thus the response is part mand and part tact.

Question 18

Generic extension

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・A response that is evoked by a novel stimulus that shares all of the relevant features of the original stimulus.

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Metaphorical extension

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・A verbal response is evoked by a novel stimulus that shares some, but not all, of the relevant features of the original stimulus.

Question 20

Metonymical extension

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・A response is evoked by a novel stimulus sharing no relevant features with the original stimulus, but some irrelevant yet related features has acquired stimulus control.

Question 21

Multiple control

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・Includes convergent and divergent multiple control. Convergent control is when more than one variable evokes a single verbal response and divergent control is when a single variable evokes several verbal responses.