Verbal Behavior SAFMEDS

Question 1

A decrease in the current frequency of behavior that has been reinforced by the stimulus that is increased in reinforcing effectiveness by the same motivating operation.

Answer 1

abative effect

Question 2

A motivating operation that decreases the reinforcing effectiveness of a stimulus, object, or event.

Answer 2

abolishing operation

Question 3

An alteration in the current frequency of behavior that has been reinforced by the stimulus that is altered in effectiveness by the same motivating operation.

Answer 3

behavior-altering effect

Question 4

A motivating operation whose value- altering effect depends on a learning history.

Answer 4

conditioning motivating operation

Question 5

A motivating operation that increases the effectiveness of some stimulus, object, or event as a reinforcer.

Answer 5

establishing operation

Question 6

An increase in the current frequency of behavior that has been reinforced by the stimulus that is increased in reinforcing effectiveness by the same motivation operation.

Answer 6

evocative effect

Question 7

A relatively permanent change in an organism’s repertoire of MO, stimulus, and response relations, caused by reinforcement, punishment, an extinction, procedure, or a recovery from punishment procedure.

Answer 7

function-altering effect

Question 8

An environmental variable that a) alters the reinforcing or punishing effectiveness of some stimulus, object or event; and b) alters the current frequency of all behavior that has been reinforced or punished by that stimulus, object, or event.

Answer 8

motivating operation

Question 9

The occurrence of a previously punished type of response without its punishing consequence. This procedure is analogous to the extinction of previously reinforced behavior and has the effect of undoing the effect of the punishment.

Answer 9

recovery from punishment procedure

Question 10

A stimulus that acquires MO effectiveness by preceding some form of worsening or improvement. It is exemplified by the warning stimulus in a typical escape-avoidance procedure, which establishes its own offset as reinforcement and evokes all behavior that has accomplished that offset.

Answer 10

reflexive conditioned motivating operation

Question 11

Trained: A > B and B > C Derived: A > C and C < A

Answer 11

combinatorial entailment

Question 12

Two or more stimulus relations can mutually combine

Answer 12

combinatorial entailment

Question 13

An operant in which the form of the individual responses in the class vary considerably

Answer 13

generalized operant

Question 14

Individual is given multiple opportunities to make a response in a given context, the irrelevant features of the task vary across opportunities, but the condition for obtaining reinforcement remains the same

Answer 14

multiple exemplar training

Question 15

Trained: A > B Derived: B < A

Answer 15

mutual entailment

Question 16

A relation in one direction between two stimuli (e.g., A to B) entails a relation in the other direction (e.g., B to A)

Answer 16

mutual entailment

Question 17

A—–>B; B

Answer 17

mutual entailment

Question 18

A generalized pattern of relational responding that is arbitrarily applicable and has the properties of mutual entailment, combinatorial entailment, and transformation of stimulus function

Answer 18

relational frame

Question 19

Responding to one stimulus based on its relation to another stimulus or stimuli

Answer 19

relational responding

Question 20

The functions a stimulus has for a person can be changed on the basis of how it is related to other stimuli

Answer 20

Transformation of stimulus functions

Question 21

A type of controlling variable that is usually a listener in the presence of whom verbal behavior is typically reinforced and that controls a group of response forms

Answer 21

audience

Question 22

A form of verbal behavior in which the response is writing or printing, the controlling variable is a response-product of previous writing behavior, there is point-to-point correspondence between the controlling variable and the response, and there is formal similarity between the controlling variable and the response-product

Answer 22

copying a text

Question 23

A form of verbal behavior in which the response is vocal and controlled by a prior auditory stimulus, there is point-to-point correspondence between the stimulus and the response, and there is formal similarity between the stimulus and the response-product

Answer 23

echoic behavior

Question 24

An environmental change or event that precedes the response to which it is functionally related and increases the effectiveness of a particular stimulus change as reinforcement

Answer 24

establishing operation

Question 25

When a controlling variable evokes a response and there is point-to-point correspondence between the controlling variable and the response

Answer 25

formal control

Question 26

A relationship between (1) a stimulus that evokes a response and (2) the response-product of that response in which the stimulus and the response-product are both in the same modality and their physical patterns or sequences resemble one another

Answer 26

formal similarity

Question 27

A verbal response in which the controlling variable is a verbal stimulus, and there is NO point-to-point correspondence between the stimulus and the response

Answer 27

intraverbal

Question 28

A verbal response in which the form of the response is controlled by an establishing operation

Answer 28

mand

Question 29

A stimulus change that occurs after a response has been emitted, increases the future probability of that response, and results from the action of another individual

Answer 29

mediated reinforcement

Question 30

A relationship between a discriminative stimulus and the response it controls in which both the stimulus and response have two or more components and each component of the stimulus controls a specific component of the response

Answer 30

point-to-point correspondence

Question 31

A stimulus that is the result of someone’s behavior

Answer 31

response product

Question 32

A verbal response in which the controlling variable is a non-verbal stimulus

Answer 32

tact

Question 33

A form of verbal behavior in which the response is writing, the controlling variable is a response-product of someone’s prior vocal behavior, and there is point-to-point correspondence between the stimulus and the response

Answer 33

taking dictation

Question 34

A form of verbal behavior in which the response is vocal, the response is controlled by a prior stimulus that is the response- product of writing behavior, and there is point-to-point correspondence between the stimulus and the response

Answer 34

textual behavior

Question 35

When a controlling variable evokes a response but there is NO point-to-point correspondence between the controlling variable and the response

Answer 35

thematic control

Question 36

Behavior reinforced through the mediation of another person who has been specifically trained to provide such reinforcement

Answer 36

verbal behavior

Question 37

A physical energy change capable of affecting an organism’s sensory receptors that has a specific form or pattern which as a unit has controlling effectiveness and is the result of verbal behavior

Answer 37

verbal stimulus